It interrupted several government services, such as immigration and operations at major airports in Indonesia
Last month, a ransomware attack carried out by a group known as Brain Cipher impacted over 160 government agencies. It interrupted several government services, such as immigration and operations at major airports in Indonesia. Indonesian officials admitted that most of the data had not been backed up.
The attackers initially asked for $8 million in ransom to decrypt the data. However, they later apologized and gave the decryption key for free, said Singapore-based Cybersecurity firm StealthMole.
“The communications ministry is using a decryption strategy to recover services or assets from ministries, state agencies, and the regional governments that have been affected. We are handling this gradually,” Chief Security Minister Hadi Tjahjanto said in a statement on Thursday.
It remains uncertain whether the government used Brain Cipher’s decryption key for the decryption strategy. Hadi and Communications Minister Budi Arie Setiadi have yet to respond to requests for comment.
Indonesian officials have said that malicious software Lockbit 3.0 was used to carry out this ransomware attack.
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