Officials from the PGA of America were just greeted on Tuesday by messages from a piece of ransomware. The demands included a payment in Bitcoin to a specific wallet address.
The message read: “Your network has been penetrated. All files on each host in the network have been encrypted with a strong algorithm.” It was followed by a typical warning we see in most ransomware that tells the user not to attempt to break the encryption themselves lest they lose all of their data.
Unfortunately for the victims of this attack, this attack managed to hit them in the gut, as the affected system contained all of the creative media needed to market the association’s entry into the Ryder Cup.
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