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Authorities: Overseas Hackers Seeking to Extort Columbia Falls with Cyber Threats
Authorities: Overseas Hackers Seeking to Extort Community with Cyber Threats
Hackers send ransom letter seeking electronic currency to end threats, destroy personal information that was gathered in breach
BY DILLON TABISH // SEP 18, 2017
Law enforcement has identified the source of recent cyber threats as an overseas hacking organization that is seeking to extort local residents.
Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry released a statement Monday night explaining the latest details of the investigation, including a seven-page ransom letter. Hackers emailed the lengthy ransom letter to members of the Columbia Falls school board and the superintendent on Monday.
Curry said the hacking organization, identified in the letter as TheDarkOverlord Solutions, is an overseas group. The organization is the subject of other investigations across the U.S., Curry said, and has been tied to high-profile hacking incidents, including a breach of Netflix.
Curry said the group is seeking payment via bitcoin, a cryptocurrency and digital payment system. Law enforcement has advised the recipients of the ransom letter to not engage with the hackers.
Hackers send ransom letter seeking electronic currency to end threats, destroy personal information that was gathered in breach
BY DILLON TABISH // SEP 18, 2017
Law enforcement has identified the source of recent cyber threats as an overseas hacking organization that is seeking to extort local residents.
Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry released a statement Monday night explaining the latest details of the investigation, including a seven-page ransom letter. Hackers emailed the lengthy ransom letter to members of the Columbia Falls school board and the superintendent on Monday.
Curry said the hacking organization, identified in the letter as TheDarkOverlord Solutions, is an overseas group. The organization is the subject of other investigations across the U.S., Curry said, and has been tied to high-profile hacking incidents, including a breach of Netflix.
Curry said the group is seeking payment via bitcoin, a cryptocurrency and digital payment system. Law enforcement has advised the recipients of the ransom letter to not engage with the hackers.
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