Cognizant, one of the largest tech and consulting companies in the Fortune 500, has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack.
Cognizant spokesperson Richard Lacroix said,
“Cognizant can confirm that a security incident involving our internal systems, and causing service disruptions for some of our clients, is the result of a Maze ransomware attack.” Our internal security teams, supplemented by leading cyber defense firms, are actively taking steps to contain this incident.”
Now they have engaged the related Law Enforcement agencies to find a remediation. Read more below,
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/18/cognizant-maze-ransomware/The amount of ransom is still unknown but it seems that the privacy parameter associated with the cryptocurrencies are only helping such miscreants. It's indeed sad to see crypto's involvement with such illegal incidents.