CWT

Ransomware

Estimated loss

$4.50M

VERDICT —UNRATED

Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.

▰ METHOD

Undisclosed

Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

Forensic narrative

CWT, the fifth largest travel company in the United States, agreed to pay $4.5 million worth of bitcoin to hackers who hijacked its computer systems. Attack method (per SlowMist): Ransomware. Reported loss: $ 4,500,000.

Primary source

https://cybelangel.com/blog/ragnar-locker-targets-cwt/ ↗

Sourced from

slowmist

Technical record