{"id":94442,"date":"2019-08-04T22:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T05:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/germanwiper-ransomware-erases-data-still-asks-for-ransom"},"modified":"2019-08-04T22:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T05:42:44","slug":"germanwiper-ransomware-erases-data-still-asks-for-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/germanwiper-ransomware-erases-data-still-asks-for-ransom","title":{"rendered":"GermanWiper Ransomware Erases Data, Still Asks for Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/germanwiper-ransomware-erases-data-still-asks-for-ransom2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multiple German companies were off to a rough start last week when a phishing campaign pushing a data-wiping malware targeted them and asked for a ransom. This wiper is being named GermanWiper due to its targeting of German victims and it being a destructive wiper rather than a ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>The malware was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/forums\/t\/701735\/germanwiper-ransomware-with-random-extensions-08kja-avco3-oqn1b\/\" target=\"_blank\">first reported on the BleepingComputer forum<\/a> on Tuesday, July 30 and users soon learned after examining their files that it is a data wiper, despite it demanding a ransom payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple German companies were off to a rough start last week when a phishing campaign pushing a data-wiping malware targeted them and asked for a ransom. This wiper is being named GermanWiper due to its targeting of German victims and it being a destructive wiper rather than a ransomware. The malware was first reported on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}