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RANSOMWARE ATTACK HITS GOA’S FLOOD MONITORING SYSTEM; DEMAND CRYPTO AS PAYMENT

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In a complaint to the cyber cell, the state government’s water resources
department that has been maintaining the data said that all its files have been
encrypted and can no longer be accessed.
The complaint was filed on June 24 but has come to light on Thursday. (File
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Goa’s flood monitoring system was hit by ransomware attackers who have demanded
to be paid in cryptocurrency for the data on flood monitoring stations to be
released.



In a complaint to the Cyber cell of the Goa Police, the state government’s water
resources department that has been maintaining the data said all its files have
been encrypted and can no longer be accessed.

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“Server has been under the cyberattack of ransomware. Under the attack, all
files are encrypted with eking extension and cannot be accessed. In a popup and
stored file, the attackers are demanding Bitcoins Cryptocurrency for the
decryption of the data. The attack was carried out on 21 June 2022 midnight
between 12am-2am. The integrity of the data has been altered making it
impossible to back up the previous data. The server works on the 24x7 internet
line and the attack was eased due to absence of antivirus and outdated
firewalls,” the complaint filed by executive engineer Sunil Karmarkar revealed.




The complaint was filed on June 24 but has come to light today.

The data center server located at Panaji was storing data of the flood
monitoring system at 15 locations on major rivers in Goa to monitor flood levels
in rivers as a part of disaster management in order to have a control on floods
eventualities.

The data of flood monitoring system, automated rain gauges and weather gauges
get stored in the server located at the Water Resources Department Headquarters
in the state capital while the servers were being maintained by ASTRA Microwave
Products limited, Hyderabad.

As a result of the hacking, the department can now no longer access its data
related to battery voltages of different stations, data packets related to 12
stations, has lost all its old data which can now no longer be backed up locally
and has also lost real time data of the rivers currently in spate owing to the
ongoing vigorous monsoon activity across the state.



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