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Encryption-based extortion
Definition
The extortion activity involved unauthorized encryption of systems or data, with restoration or decryption conditioned on payment.
Connected registry data
These connections are derived from the public incidents and organizations in this page’s scope.
Locations
77 valuesIncident impacts and related organization locations
- Abilene, Texas
- Anderson, South Carolina
- Arizona
- Batesville, Mississippi
- Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
- Beaver County, Pennsylvania
- Beaver, Pennsylvania
- Biloxi, Mississippi
- Box Elder County, Utah
- Brigham City, Utah
- Canton, Mississippi
- Carson City, Nevada
- Center Township, Pennsylvania
- Central Point, Oregon
- Central, South Carolina
- Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area, Oklahoma
- Chippewa Township, Pennsylvania
- Clemson, South Carolina
- Columbia, Tennessee
- Concho, Oklahoma
- Coopersville, Michigan
- Coweta, Oklahoma
- Delano Public School District, Minnesota
- Delano, Minnesota
- Denmark School District, Wisconsin
- Denmark, Wisconsin
- Easley, South Carolina
- Ecru, Mississippi
- Flagstaff, Arizona
- Flowood, Mississippi
- Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Golf Manor, Ohio
- Goodyear, Arizona
- Grenada, Mississippi
- Gulfport, Mississippi
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Hartwell, Georgia
- Hattiesburg, Mississippi
- Honea Path, South Carolina
- Iuka, Mississippi
- Iva, South Carolina
- Jackson, Mississippi
- Jerome Joint School District No. 261, Idaho
- Jerome, Idaho
- Lexington, Mississippi
- Liberty, South Carolina
- Louisville, Mississippi
- Luna County, New Mexico
- Madison, Mississippi
- McComb, Mississippi
- McMurray, Pennsylvania
- Meridian, Mississippi
- Nevada
- Oxford, Mississippi
- Pendleton, South Carolina
- Pennsylvania
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Pickens, South Carolina
- Piedmont, South Carolina
- Ridgeland, Mississippi
- Saint Croix District, U.S. Virgin Islands
- St. Thomas County, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Sheboygan, Wisconsin
- Silver City, New Mexico
- Tucson, Arizona
- Tupelo, Mississippi
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Vaiden, Mississippi
- Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Webster, New York
- West, Mississippi
- Williamston, South Carolina
- Winona, Mississippi
- York, Pennsylvania
- Yuma, Arizona
Operational impacts
31 valuesService effects recorded on related incidents
- Alternate service channel required
- Application unavailable
- Backlog created
- Complete service outage
- Customer or public access restricted
- Downstream organization impact
- Educational operations disrupted
- Email disruption
- Event or activity cancellation
- Facility closure
- Government services disrupted
- Healthcare operations disrupted
- Internal systems unavailable
- Internet access disruption
- Manual workaround required
- Manufacturing or production disruption
- Network outage
- Online portal unavailable
- Partial service outage
- Payment processing disruption
- Phone service disruption
- Records access disruption
- Records processing disruption
- Remote access disruption
- Retail operations disrupted
- Scheduling disruption
- Service delay
- Staff sent home or placed on leave
- Staff unable to work normally
- Transaction processing disruption
- Website unavailable
Extortion indicators
12 valuesThreat groups in related incidents
11 valuesDerived through public incident claims
Data impacts
8 valuesData effects recorded on related incidents
Attack mechanisms
6 valuesMechanisms recorded on related incidents
Ransomware confidence
4 valuesDD-CIT assessments
3 valuesCyber transparency
2 valuesCyber-transparency classifications of related incidents
Disruption transparency
2 valuesDisruption-transparency classifications of related incidents
Incident status
2 valuesCurrent status of related incidents
Attribution confidence
2 valuesThreat actor types
1 valueClassifications of related threat groups
Incident confidence
1 valueAssessment confidence of related incidents
Cyber assessment
1 valueCurrent assessment of whether incidents are cyber-related