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Ransomware attacks focusing on Afghanistan

Atlas VPN stated that after the recent Taliban takeover cybercriminals are targetting the country in chaos.

Erdem Yasar by Erdem Yasar
September 9, 2021
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With the recent Taliban takeover of the Afghanistan government, cybercriminals are also attacking the country for their own benefits. Atlas VPN stated that according to the data from Kaspersky Cyberthreat Map collected between August 5 to September 4, 1.77% of all ransomware attacks were targetting Afghanistan.

A new political system

While businesses in the country are trying to adapt to the new political system, most of the workers were unable to go to work or fled the country. During this period, cybercriminals started launching ransomware attacks on SMBs from the country. Atlas VPN also stated that the most popular malware used in ransomware attacks in the past month was Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Wanna.m malware with 14.64%. It belongs to the WannaCry type malware family which encrypts user files and spreads by exploiting a vulnerability in the Server Message Block protocol.

Another country on the list is Papua New Guinea which has suffered from 1.69% of ransomware attacks. Pakistan became third, being threatened by 1.36% of attacks. Bangladesh and Iran are next, suffering from 1.12% and 1.03% of threats.

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Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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