Councils in Alaska switched to printing machines after a destructive cyber attack

The civil servants of the County of the County-Susyita state of Alaska were forced to brush off the dust from the old printing machines and replace them with the usual computers because of the cyber attack that destroyed the local information system, BBC reports.

According to the representative of Boro, the virus entitled Bitpaymer has encrypted the contents of the mail server and internal systems, as well as servers with files. As a result of the attack, almost all of the 500 PCs on Windows, which were used by employees, were also infected. In addition, the attack touched 120 servers. As the head of the IT service of Boro Eric Wyatt noted, the virus also struck the telephone network and the access system to the office using electronic gaps.

According to the Bleeping Computer website, the slap-on the slap of the slate occurred on July 24, but it is possible that some kind of malicious in the system penetrated the system back in May.

According to Wyatt, the antivirus used to protect the Boro networks discovered one of the components of the malicious on July 17, but missed the rest of the elements, allowing them to spread through the PC and servers. Initially, experts decided that infected backups were not subject to restoration, but later it turned out that part of the data was preserved. At the same time, data from the postal server are not recovered.

Currently, the process of restoring systems after a destructive attack continues. Virus encrypted files will be saved for a long time so that experts from the FBI try to find the key to decrypt them.