Indonesia Archives

Ransomware Attack at Indonesian Railway company

January 7, 2024

State-owned railway company Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) fell victim to a ransomware attack. Pratama Persadha, Indonesia’s Cybersecurity Research Institute chairman, said the current cyberattack was the most severe to hit Indonesian government agencies and companies since 2017. “The disruption to the national data center and days-long needed to recover the system means this ransomware attack was extraordinary.” Persadha said. “It shows that our cyber infrastructure and its server systems were not being handled well.”

The government was asked to pay a ransom of 11.69 Bitcoin.

Large Scale Data Breach Disrupts >200 Indonesian Government Agencies

June 20, 2024

On June 20th, one of the temporary National Data Centers suffered a cyberattack that encrypted the government’s servers and disrupted immigration services, passport control, issuing of event permits, and other online services. The government confirmed that a new ransomware operation, Brain Cipher, was behind the attack, disrupting over 200 government agencies.

The Ministry of Communication and Information Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan said “Regarding security, we have succeeded in carrying out quarantine or isolation in the affected areas.”

Winnti attack on Lion Air

January 1, 2018

Consequences not disclosed. ARD, a public broadcaster reported that company had been attacked by a group associated with Chinese government with malware which allows attackers to access victims network remotely.