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IS THE BLACKBYTE RANSOMWARE GANG BEHIND THE CITY OF AUGUSTA ATTACK?

May 27, 2023  By Pierluigi Paganini




THE CITY OF AUGUSTA IN GEORGIA, U.S., ADMITTED THAT THE RECENT IT SYSTEM OUTAGE
WAS CAUSED BY A CYBER ATTACK.

While the City of Augusta revealed that a cyberattack caused the recent IT
outage, the BlackByte ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the attack.





The attack took place on May 21, the administrator at the City announced that
they were experiencing a disruption in network services, warning of potential
impacts on telephone and email access.


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In a post published on the city’s website, the administration denied that it was
the victim of a ransomware attack and that the threat actors demanded the
payment of $50 million ransom.



“The City of Augusta, GA began experiencing technical difficulties this past
Sunday, May 21, 2023, unrelated to last week’s outage, resulting in a disruption
to certain computer systems. We began an investigation and determined that we
were the victim of unauthorized access to our system.” reads the announcement
published by the City. “Our Information Technology Department is working
diligently to investigate the incident, to confirm its impact on our systems,
and to restore full functionality to our systems as soon as possible.”

The City has launched an investigation into the incident to determine the impact
of the security breach and is working to restore full functionality to our
systems as soon as possible.

“Recent media reports regarding Augusta, Georgia being held hostage for $50
million in a ransomware attack are incorrect.” reads the post published in May
25.

“Augusta’s Information Technology Department continues to work diligently to
investigate the incident, to confirm its impact on our systems, and to restore
full functionality to our systems as soon as possible. We continue to
investigate what, if any, sensitive data may have been impacted or accessed.”



The BlackByte ransomware group has added the City of Augusta to its Tor leak
site. The group has leaked a zip archive of 8.1 GB of data as proof of their
breach.

The group is demanding $400,000 for deleting the stolen information and $300,000
for anyone that wants to buy the data.

In February the City of Oakland (California), suffered a ransomware attack. The
group behind the attack, the Play ransomware gang, has begun to leak stolen data
in March.

The Play ransomware gang has begun to leak data they have stolen from the City
of Oakland (California) in a recent cyberattack.

In February, the City of Oakland in California suffered a ransomware attack from
the Play gang, forcing it to declare an emergency. By March, another ransomware
group, LockBit, claimed a second attack on the City of Oakland.

In March, Clop ransomware gang added the City of Toronto to the list of victims
published on its Tor leak site. The City was targeted as part of a campaign
exploiting the recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in the
Fortra’s GoAnywhere secure file transfer tool.

In May, the IT systems at the City of Dallas, Texas, have been targeted by a
ransomware attack launched by the Royal ransomware group. 

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, City of Augusta)


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PIERLUIGI PAGANINI

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and
Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he
is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer.
Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security
expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical
Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that
security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security
blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US.
Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some
major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island,
Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security
magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency
and Bitcoin”.




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