{"id":99044,"date":"2019-11-26T09:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T17:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/pemex-still-suffers-cyberattack-fallout"},"modified":"2019-11-26T09:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T17:22:57","slug":"pemex-still-suffers-cyberattack-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/pemex-still-suffers-cyberattack-fallout","title":{"rendered":"Pemex Still Suffers Cyberattack Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pemex-still-suffers-cyberattack-fallout.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O.o\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The communications system of Mexico\u2019s oil giant Pemex is still suffering the lingering effects of a cyberattack that occurred earlier this month, sources from the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/pemex-communications-still-spotty-after-crippling-cyberattack-1.1353325\">told<\/a> Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>A ransomware attack caused administrative operations at Pemex to <a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Latest-Energy-News\/World-News\/Another-Oil-Giant-Falls-Victim-To-A-Cyberattack.html\">grind<\/a> to a halt on November 10, with the company announcing the resumption of work soon after, saying the actual attack had been prevented.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers used the Ryuk ransomware, which specifically targets companies with annual revenues of between $500 million and $1 billion. The Ryuk ransomware gets dropped into a network by another malware and soon after begins encrypting files. Yet the encryption begins with a delay, which gives the attackers time to study their target and how much money they could extort from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o\u2026 The communications system of Mexico\u2019s oil giant Pemex is still suffering the lingering effects of a cyberattack that occurred earlier this month, sources from the company told Bloomberg. A ransomware attack caused administrative operations at Pemex to grind to a halt on November 10, with the company announcing the resumption of work soon after, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99044","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}