{"id":12459,"date":"2016-11-28T17:56:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ransomware_fog_rolls_over_sanfran_muni_sfmta.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:31:10","slug":"ransomware-fog-rolls-over-sanfran-muni-sfmta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/ransomware-fog-rolls-over-sanfran-muni-sfmta.html","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Fog Rolls over SanFran Muni, SFMTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/sfmta.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2016\/11\/sfmta-thumb-500x86-15442.png\" alt=\"sfmta.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve known ransomware costs for a small- to medium-sized business can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apextechservices.com\/topics\/articles\/425978-smbs-wont-believe-cost-a-ransomware-attack.htm\">$99,000<\/a>, per Kapersky Labs. This includes lost business data, productivity and perhaps trade secrets or proprietary information, as well as increased spending on IT security.<\/p>\n<p>A new Vanson Bourne survey, sponsored by SentinelOne of 500 cybersecurity decision makers reveals that recovery from a ransomware infection takes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.sentinelone.com\/rs\/327-MNM-087\/images\/Data%20Summary%20-%20English.pdf\">33 employee hours<\/a>. Suffering this potential consequence were the 48% of organizations that reported being subjected to at least one ransomware attack during the last 12 months. Ouch&hellip; More than one a year?<\/p>\n<p>The latest high-profile victim which was made public (often a company will do its best to hide such a breach) is San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker &ndash; using a Russian email address <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apextechservices.com\/topics\/articles\/427512-san-franciscos-muni-suffers-brutal-ransomware-attack.htm\">demanded<\/a> $73,000 and due to infections on the machines processing payments, riders were able to ride trains without paying.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously this was a very expensive attack &ndash; it is unknown how much revenue was lost as a result. To learn more, we reached out to Paul Rose of the SFMTA who was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>For more, the SFMTA has a blog post from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfmta.com\/about-sfmta\/blog\/update-sfmta-ransomware-attack\">Kristen Holland<\/a> which has minor details of interest. In addition, reports of hackers threatening to release data have recently surfaced &ndash; perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/11\/28\/muni-hack-san-francisco\/\">30 GB of personal tracking data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line &ndash; make sure you have a disaster recovery strategy as getting hit by ransomware is a matter of when, not if and you need to know how to respond quickly when your computers become unusable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve known ransomware costs for a small- to medium-sized business can be $99,000, per Kapersky Labs. This includes lost business data, productivity and perhaps trade secrets or proprietary information, as well as increased spending on IT security. A new Vanson Bourne survey, sponsored by SentinelOne of 500 cybersecurity decision makers reveals that recovery from a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18452,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions\/18452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}