{"id":17008,"date":"2020-12-05T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T09:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=17008"},"modified":"2020-12-05T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T09:50:32","slug":"metro-of-vancouver-is-victim-of-a-ransomware-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/12\/05\/metro-of-vancouver-is-victim-of-a-ransomware-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro of Vancouver is victim of a ransomware infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Schutz.jpg\" width=\"40\" align=\"left\" height=\"47\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/05\/ransomware-befall-bei-der-metro-von-vancouver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]The IT systems of the metro transport system of the Canadian city of Vancover are affected by a ransomware infestation. The operator TansLink is currently experiencing billing problems because files on the servers are encrypted.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bleeping Computer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/metro-vancouvers-transit-system-hit-by-egregor-ransomware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports here<\/a> about this cyber incident. TransLink made the incident public on December 1, 2020. The following tweet shows an outline of the ransomware message. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jarmstrongbc\/status\/1334659238019223552\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ransomware-Befall bei der Metro von Vancouver\" alt=\"Ransomware-Befall bei der Metro von Vancouver\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/SDggfvS.png\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Translink, the operator, has admitted the incident and reported that there were problems with their IT systems affecting phones, online services and the ability to pay fares with a credit or debit card. Transportation operations were not affected by the IT problems.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, there was a ransomware infestation, behind which the Egregor Group is behind the problems. The cyber attack caused disruptions in services and payment systems. The group is also behind the attack on Ranstad (<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/12\/04\/egregor-ransomware-befall-bei-randstad-zeitarbeit\/\">Egregor ransomware infection at Randstad<\/a>), which was just reported.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]The IT systems of the metro transport system of the Canadian city of Vancover are affected by a ransomware infestation. The operator TansLink is currently experiencing billing problems because files on the servers are encrypted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[243,69],"class_list":["post-17008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-ransomware","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}