

At least 31 customer organizations have been attacked, meaning the total number of attacks may be much higher. The end goal of these attacks is to cripple the victim’s IT infrastructure by encrypting most of their computers and servers in order to demand a multimillion dollar ransom. companies by attackers attempting to deploy the WastedLocker ransomware (Ransom.WastedLocker) on their networks. Symantec, a division of Broadcom, has identified and alerted our customers to a string of attacks against U.S.

Symantec has notified the company and it has now removed the malicious code. Some of the organizations targeted by WastedLocker could have been compromised when an employee browsed the news on one of its websites. newspaper websites owned by the same parent company have been compromised by SocGholish injected code. UPDATE June 30: Further investigation by Symantec has confirmed dozens of U.S.
