Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Works and Transport crippled by ransomware attack

Costa Rica’s government has suffered another ransomware attack just months after several ministries were crippled in a wide-ranging attack by hackers using the Conti ransomware.

On Tuesday, Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) said in a statement that 12 of its servers were encrypted. Cybersecurity experts from the National Security Directorate and the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications were called in to address the situation and all of MOPT’s computer systems were knocked offline. …

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