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Web host agrees to pay $1m after it’s hit by Linux-targeting ransomware

(credit: Aurich Lawson) A Web-hosting service recently agreed to pay a $1 million to a ransomware operation that encrypted data stored on 153 Linux servers and 3,400 customer websites, the company said recently. The South Korean Web host, Nayana, said in a blog post published last week that initial ransom demands were for five billion won worth of Bitcoin, which is roughly $4.4 million. Company negotiators later managed to get the fee lowered to 1.8 billion won and ultimately landed a further reduction to 1.2 billion won, or just over $1 million. An update posted Saturday said Nayana engineers were in the process of recovering the data. The post cautioned that that the recovery was difficult and would take time. “It is very frustrating and difficult, but I am really doing my best, and I will do my best to make sure all servers are normalized,” a representative wrote, according to a Google translation. Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Web host agrees to pay $1m after it’s hit by Linux-targeting ransomware

NY sues Charter/Time Warner Cable, alleges false promise of fast Internet

(credit: Aurich Lawson) New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today filed a lawsuit against Charter and its Time Warner Cable (TWC) subsidiary, claiming that the Internet provider “allegedly conduct[ed] a deliberate scheme to defraud and mislead New Yorkers by promising Internet service that they knew they could not deliver.” State officials said they conducted a 16-month investigation that reviewed internal corporate communications “and hundreds of thousands of subscriber speed tests,” concluding that Spectrum-TWC customers were “dramatically short-changed on both speed and reliability,” the attorney general’s announcement said . The 87-page summons and complaint filed in the New York State Supreme Court is available here . “The suit alleges that subscribers’ wired Internet speeds for the premium plan (100, 200, and 300 Mbps) were up to 70 percent slower than promised; Wi-Fi speeds were even slower, with some subscribers getting speeds that were more than 80 percent slower than what they had paid for,” the announcement said. “As alleged in the complaint, Spectrum-TWC charged New Yorkers as much as $109.99 per month for premium plans [that] could not achieve speeds promised in their slower plans.” Read 13 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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NY sues Charter/Time Warner Cable, alleges false promise of fast Internet