May 19, 2022

Bank of Zambia under ransomware attack

Last week, the Bank of Zambia, the country's central bank, reported that recent technical outages resulted from a hacker attack.

The bank said in a press release:

The Bank of Zambia wishes to inform members of the public that it experienced a partial disruption to some of its Information Technology (IT) applications on Monday 9th May 2022.

The cyberattack was reportedly conducted by the Hive ransomware operation, which claimed to have encrypted the bank's Network Attached Storage (NAS) device.

However, instead of paying the ransom, the bank representatives responded to the ransom negotiation by making fun of the hacker's '14m3-sk1llz.'

They then proceeded to post a link to a dick pic while stating, "suck this dick and stop locking bank networks thinking that you will monetize something, learn to monetize."

In the same time, Killnet hackers have announced global cyber attacks against a number of countries - including the UK - for standing up to Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.