Hackers use ransomware to lock your hotel doors – computer World

Guests, who spend the last time in a luxury hotel Romantik Seehotel Jägerwir in the Austrian Alps, rather, it will not be rather good to remember. All the fault of the hackers that efficiently interfere with the normal operation of the hotel. With this purpose used the extortionists.

Hackers use ransomware to lock your hotel doors. The attack was so effective that not only made it impossible for them to open. Reprogramming the digital key didn’t help either. Hackers demanded a ransom of bitcoinach cost of 1.5 thousand euros. Bezsilini the owners, in the end, succumbed and paid the fee. You, however, did not remain gołosłowni and established the work of the hotel doors before the attack.

the owners of the hotel Romantik Seehotel Jägerwir took a quick, precautionary measures and introduced features that are designed to ensure that in the future to avoid such problems. Promised that they too return to the traditional keys that have been used for 111 years. Ransomware is all popularniejszą method of attack. Similar cases have occurred. It is worth to mention here at least one of the universities in Canada, which blocked the network of the University and was requested a ransom of 20 thousand dollars.

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