Porsche South Africa hit by ransomware

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Porsche South Africa suffers ransomware attack

Porsche South Africa's headquarters in Johannesburg suffered a disruptive ransomware attack over the weekend, taking down several of the company's systems and at least some backups.

MyBroadband understands the attackers used a relatively new ransomware strain called Faust to encrypt the company's files and lock it out of corporate systems.
 
Jan said:
Porsche South Africa suffers ransomware attack

Porsche South Africa's headquarters in Johannesburg suffered a disruptive ransomware attack over the weekend, taking down several of the company's systems and at least some backups.

MyBroadband understands the attackers used a relatively new ransomware strain called Faust to encrypt the company's files and lock it out of corporate systems.
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The Faust and the Furious...
 
r00igev@@r said:
Ze Posche haben nicht ze reverse gear.
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Das ist ganicht gut.

Mate of mine here works at a motor parts supplier (also German company). Network was breached and they had a global pain-in-the-bum IT workaround process while they purged their systems. They are still dealing with tedious logins, file retrieval requests etc.
 
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Jan said:
Porsche South Africa suffers ransomware attack

Porsche South Africa's headquarters in Johannesburg suffered a disruptive ransomware attack over the weekend, taking down several of the company's systems and at least some backups.

MyBroadband understands the attackers used a relatively new ransomware strain called Faust to encrypt the company's files and lock it out of corporate systems.
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Can you ask them what DNS server they were using?

8.8.8.8 ???

Would not have happened I they use Quad9?
 
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Posche takes cybersecurity seriously. They even have a white paper on it:
newsroom.porsche.com

White Paper – Cybersecurity as a Matter of Competitive Advantage

Cybersecurity is becoming a growing matter of competitive advantage for companies as a secure product or service turns out to be a unique selling point in an environment of ever-increasing cyber threats.
newsroom.porsche.com newsroom.porsche.com
 

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