A Garmin employee confirms that the company's servers were hit by WastedLocker, a ransomware variant developed by Russia-based cybercriminal group Evil Corp
and what you can do David Pierce / Protocol : iOS is telling on developers Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Garmin wearables back online after reported cyberattack Cat Ellis / TechRadar : Garmin Connect outage: services recover, but workouts might take a week to sync to StravaLarry Dignan / ZDNet : Garmin's outage, ransomware attack response lacking as earnings loom Tweets: Avast / @avast_antivirus : #Garmin is being asked to pay a $10 million ransom to free its systems from a #cyberattack that has taken down many of its services for several days. Employees confirmed that the company was hit by the WastedLocker #ransomware. https://www.forbes.com/... via @Forbes Jim Casey / @jim_casey_ : Why isn't this a bigger story than the child-anarchists in Portland and Seattle? First heard about it was from a pilot I follow who lost all his data while inflight. https://www.google.com/... Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : Interesting dilemma for Garmin and other victims of ransomware attacks done by Russian hacking group Evil Corp. Because Treasury Dept sanctioned Evil Corp, @zackwhittaker notes, US victims paying a ransom to them would technically be violating sanctions https://techcrunch.com/... Justin Joque / @jjoque : Woah! “The navigation company was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday, leaving customers unable to log fitness sessions in Garmin apps and pilots unable to download flight plans for aircraft navigation systems, among other problems.” https://www.forbes.com/... Harry McCann / @theharrymcc : As all my fellow Garmin owners know, Connect and all their services have been down for the last few days now. Garmin are being held at ransom for $10 million by hackers. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming days. https://www.forbes.com/... @find_evil : Every time I suggest limiting workstation-to-workstation communication and adding more VLANs and FWs I get so much pushback though 🤔 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... @rdrv3 : This Garmin story is just insane. An entire corporation ransomwared out of a critical product. 5 days of outage now, no resolution in sight. Wild. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ... Quentyn Taylor / @quentynblog : Garmin in a terrible position, allegedly pay 10 million US dollars ransom or rebuild services from scratch. it will be interesting to see what their competitors do whether they capitalise upon this or whether they try to support. https://www.forbes.com/... Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : @benthompson No they won't. The author has no clue what he's talking about. The FAA requires pilots to have an aviation navigational database of at least 58-days-old and that requirement only applies to IFR flights, not VFR (small ones) ones. Tom / @tomlawrencetech : The Garmin attack was quite extensive and has shut down their cloud operations, call center & email. “This outage also affects our call centers, and we are currently unable to receive any calls, emails or online chats” https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ... Amir Mizroch / @amirmizroch : What a bonkers story. Garmin hacked by Russian cyber mafia, can't even pay the ransom as that would be in violation of US sanctions. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : New: An ongoing outage at Garmin was caused by ransomware, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the incident. WastedLocker, a ransomware strain used by a notorious Russian hacking group — sanctioned by the US Treasury — is likely to blame. https://techcrunch.com/... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : WastedLocker is the ransomware of choice used by Evil Corp, a Russian hacking group, sanctioned by the Treasury last year. That's going to make it tough for Garmin if it wants to pay the ransom (if it doesn't have backups) very difficult.
#Garmin is being asked to pay a $10 million ransom to free its systems from a #cyberattack that has taken down many of its services for several days. Employees confirmed that the company was hit by the WastedLocker #ransomware. https://www.forbes.com/... via @Forbes
Why isn't this a bigger story than the child-anarchists in Portland and Seattle? First heard about it was from a pilot I follow who lost all his data while inflight. https://www.google.com/...
Interesting dilemma for Garmin and other victims of ransomware attacks done by Russian hacking group Evil Corp. Because Treasury Dept sanctioned Evil Corp, @zackwhittaker notes, US victims paying a ransom to them would technically be violating sanctions https://techcrunch.com/...
Woah! “The navigation company was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday, leaving customers unable to log fitness sessions in Garmin apps and pilots unable to download flight plans for aircraft navigation systems, among other problems.” https://www.forbes.com/...
As all my fellow Garmin owners know, Connect and all their services have been down for the last few days now. Garmin are being held at ransom for $10 million by hackers. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming days. https://www.forbes.com/...
Every time I suggest limiting workstation-to-workstation communication and adding more VLANs and FWs I get so much pushback though 🤔 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
This Garmin story is just insane. An entire corporation ransomwared out of a critical product. 5 days of outage now, no resolution in sight. Wild. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ...
Garmin in a terrible position, allegedly pay 10 million US dollars ransom or rebuild services from scratch. it will be interesting to see what their competitors do whether they capitalise upon this or whether they try to support. https://www.forbes.com/...
@benthompson No they won't. The author has no clue what he's talking about. The FAA requires pilots to have an aviation navigational database of at least 58-days-old and that requirement only applies to IFR flights, not VFR (small ones) ones.
The Garmin attack was quite extensive and has shut down their cloud operations, call center & email. “This outage also affects our call centers, and we are currently unable to receive any calls, emails or online chats” https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ...
What a bonkers story. Garmin hacked by Russian cyber mafia, can't even pay the ransom as that would be in violation of US sanctions. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ...
New: An ongoing outage at Garmin was caused by ransomware, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the incident. WastedLocker, a ransomware strain used by a notorious Russian hacking group — sanctioned by the US Treasury — is likely to blame. https://techcrunch.com/...
WastedLocker is the ransomware of choice used by Evil Corp, a Russian hacking group, sanctioned by the Treasury last year. That's going to make it tough for Garmin if it wants to pay the ransom (if it doesn't have backups) very difficult. More: https://techcrunch.com/... https://…
In a brief update, Garmin said it has “no indication that this outage has affected your data, including activity, payment or other personal information.” Make of that what you will. https://techcrunch.com/...
What Garmin didn't mention it in their outage alert is multiple flyGarmin services used by aircraft pilots are also down. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ...
(Mostly small) aircraft will potentially be grounded because they can't update location databases (and I wonder how many Garmin devices the military uses) https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/ ...