Cyberattack Distrupts Costa Rica Transportation Systems
INCIDENT
Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) called in Cybersecurity experts from the National Security Directorate and the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications to address the situation that 12 servers were encrypted and all of MOPT’s computer systems were knocked offline. The government did not respond to request for more information but stated that international organizations were brought in for support.
Driving tests are still being conducted in person and while license issuance services were briefly disrupted, they are now being resumed.
Type of Malware
No Malware identified
Threat Source
No threat source identified
Industries
Impacts
IT