The newer generation Ransomware happened again, and this time the victim is Garmin.
Garmin’s full statement:
“Garmin…today announced it was the victim of a cyberattack that encrypted some of our systems on July 23, 2020. As a result, many of our online services were interrupted including website functions, customer support, customer facing applications, and company communications.
“We immediately began to assess the nature of the attack and started remediation. We have no indication that any customer data, including payment information from Garmin Pay, was accessed, lost or stolen.
“Additionally, the functionality of Garmin products was not affected, other than the ability to access online services.
“Affected systems are being restored and we expect to return to normal operation over the next few days. We do not expect any material impact to our operations or financial results because of this outage.
We are happy to report that many of the systems and services affected by the recent outage, including Garmin Connect, are returning to operation. Some features still have temporary limitations while all of the data is being processed.
— Garmin (@Garmin) July 27, 2020
The facts
1 Garmin attacked by WastedLocker
2 Some of the services affected because of data encryption
3 Garmin had taken the precaution and shut down all the services
4 Garmin might pay the ransom
5 Garmin’s security systems didn’t work this time
More to come – Ransomware 2 – Why Ransomware attack happened again and again