{"id":963,"date":"2020-04-10T10:47:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/ipapps\/?p=963"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:47:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T10:47:54","slug":"hacker-seeking-bitcoin-ransom-hits-spanish-citys-computer-sytem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Hacker seeking bitcoin ransom hits Spanish city&#039;s computer sytem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic1.tadke.com\/imgs\/tech2lims\/0409\/5xxg0medmpb.jpg\" alt=\"Holding a city's computer system hostage\"><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js mt-3\">\n                Holding a city&#8217;s computer system hostage<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><p>A hacker has taken over the computer system of the southern Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera and is demanding a ransom paid in bitcoin to unlock it, local officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- \/4988204\/TechX_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<p>The cyber attack, which has caused outages of services offered through the city&#8217;s website, began on Tuesday night, a municipal spokesman told AFP. <\/p>\n<p>The hacker behind the attack is demanding a payment in bitcoin to restore the computer system, he added, without saying how much is being asked for.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have long been a favourite ransom tender for cyber criminals thanks to the currencies&#8217; anonymous nature.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s interior ministry has sent three computer experts to Jerez de la Frontera, a city of some 212,000 residents which is the home of sherry, to help the municipality resolve the cyber attack, the city&#8217;s authorities said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Its Socialist mayor, Mamem Sanchez, said the municipal website would only be back up and running when it is &#8220;100 percent secure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While law enforcement and security experts say it is unwise to pay hackers, many organisations end up accepting ransom demands which often cost less than rebuilding computer systems.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holding a city&#8217;s computer system hostage A hacker has taken over the computer system of the southern Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,577,576,579,578],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps","tag-hacker","tag-hits","tag-ransom","tag-seeking","tag-spanish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}