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Home > Cybersecurity > The Dominican government is a victim of a ransomware attack

The Dominican government is a victim of a ransomware attack

Quantum ransomware has attacked the Dominican Ministry of Agriculture and demands more than $600,000.


Rusen Gobel Rusen Gobel
August 25, 2022
1 min read
  • An agency connected to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Dominican Republic has been attacked by the Quantum ransomware group.
  • Quantum demands $650.000 as ransom which the agency most likely will not be able to afford to pay.
  • The ransomware group also claims that they have 1 TB of data to be leaked if the agency does not pay the ransom.

Ransomware gangs are just going on disrupting organizations, companies, and government agencies. The latest ransomware attack news comes from the Dominican Republic. According to the local media in the country, their government agencies have been hacked by a ransomware group, Quantum. The group demands more than $600,000 from the government.

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The attack has been conducted on the 18th of August, last week, and resulted in the encryption of four physical servers and eight virtual servers. Those servers belong to the Instituto Agrario Dominicano (IAD); which is an agency under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Dominican Republic and responsible for executing Agrarian Reform programs.

IAD director Walixson Amaury Nunez states that their systems have relied on very basic security software like antivirus and they did not have a dedicated security department. According to some sources, the agency will not pay the ransom because they can’t afford it. The Quantum ransomware group claims they also have 1 TB of Instituto Agrario Dominicano data to be leaked if the agency does not pay the ransom.

The Quantum ransomware group is said to be a subgroup of Conti, which is a well-known ransomware actor and was said to be shutting down in late June this year.

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Rusen Gobel is the managing editor of Cloud7. With more than 10 years of experience, Rusen worked as a hardware and software news editor for technology sites such as ShiftDelete, Teknokulis, Hardware Plus, BT Haber. In addition, Rusen publishes consumer product reviews on his YouTube channel. While consumer electronics has been his main focus for years, now Rusen is more interested in WordPress and software development. He had contributed different web application projects in his professional career. Rusen had graduated from Istanbul University, department of Computer Engineering. Rusen has a very high passion for learning and writing for every kind of technology. That's why he has been working as a tech editor for more than ten years on several different technology magazines and online news portals.

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