\u200cA \u200bransomware group said on Friday it was putting up for auction a trove of data it stole from Berlin state agencies, and city officials refused \u200cto pay. The Rhysida group, which researchers say operates from Russia or Eastern Europe, said on its website it took 5.79 terabytes of data including 46,500 contracts as well as emails, phone numbers, passwords and classified information. The group said \u200cit was auctioning the data at a starting price of 30 bitcoin ($77,622) in just under seven days, \u200cshowing a countdown timer on its website. The cyberattack on Berlin’s network comes less than a month before the city-state holds elections on September 20. ‘BERLIN WILL NOT SUBMIT TO EXTORTION’<\/p>\n
Broadcaster RBB reported on Thursday evening that Berlin had received ransom demands for an unspecified \u2060amount \u200bfollowing the attack. “The state of Berlin \u2060will not submit to extortion,” Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner and Berlin’s interior senator, Iris Spranger, said in a joint statement on Friday, \u2060before the ransomware group claimed the attack on their website. Officials could not provide details on the content or scope of \u200bthe affected data because the extent of the breach was still being examined, Wegner said at \u2060a press conference.<\/p>\n
Spranger said the city’s election infrastructure had not been affected and that, according to security officials, no data related to the \u2060election \u200bhad been compromised. RANSOMWARE GROUP TARGETS GOVERNMENTS Rhysida has claimed nearly 280 attacks since it emerged in June 2023, according to cybercrime research platform eCrime.ch. Roughly half of its victims have been in the U.S., followed \u2060by the U.K., Canada and Italy, as well as other nations, according to Ransom-DB, a ransomware analysis and tracking \u2060service. The group has \u2060repeatedly targeted government institutions, such as the October 2023 hack of the British Library. The group has also claimed attacks on the Chilean army, schools, healthcare facilities and businesses \u200cof all \u200csizes. <\/p>\n
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