Did Garmin pay for the key to ransomware? 📦

5    04 Aug 2020 20:53 by u/DarkMavrik

I have seen so much conflicting stuff on Garmin getting demolished basically. Can anyone comment me some links to confirmed that Garmin paid to the random and actually got their servers decrypted

5 comments

1 u/CaptianObvious 04 Aug 2020 21:06
Garmin is still around?
1 u/DarkMavrik [OP] 04 Aug 2020 21:26
Some of the best fitness trackers on the market, tell their servers got smashed with ransom wear
1 u/CaptianObvious 04 Aug 2020 21:30
Interesting, glad to hear that they were able to refocus their business away from their GPS map units. Good for them. But man that sucks, getting stuck with something like that. Wonder what they did. My guess is paid them. Who said crime doesn't pay.
1 u/DarkMavrik [OP] 04 Aug 2020 21:41
I didn't know of a case where someone paid and got the encryption key. Why I was so curious.
3 u/CaptianObvious 04 Aug 2020 21:49
I thought the many of hospitals in the UK paid to have it removed a few years ago... EDIT, here is what I found : * [US Hospital pays $500k](https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-hospital-pays-55000-to-ransomware-operators/) * [UK Hospitals hit with massive ransomware attack](https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/12/15630354/nhs-hospitals-ransomware-hack-wannacry-bitcoin) * [UK organizations paid $210M for ransomware attack](https://www.decisionmarketing.co.uk/news/uk-organisations-pay-210m-in-ransomware-demands) I think I'm in the wrong business. :(