Shipping company Anglo-Eastern hit by ransomware attack in Kowloon, Hong Kong

Summary:

On May 18 2020, Kowloon, Hong-Kong based ship manager Anglo-Eastern was hit by a ransomware attack, resulting in a part of the company's workstations and servers being encrypted. The company responded by taking down its servers in order to quarantine the malicious virus. Although, according to the company, it took days to recover the encrypted data, no data was lost eventually.

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.06545.pdf