Network Box: Land Mines and Bitcoin Equivalent

network box: Most of the attacks are arriving via email, so there are many land mines' waiting in people's in-boxes, said Michael Gazeley, managing director of Network Box, a Hong Kong-based cybersecurity company, according to The Japan Times. Japan's National Police Agency reported two breaches of computers in the country on Sunday one at a hospital and the other case involving a private person but no loss of funds. The ransomware that has locked up more than 200,000 computers in more than 150 countries has been mainly spread by email, hitting factories, hospitals, shops and schools worldwide. In both cases, data on the affected PCs were encrypted and the users received demands to pay the bitcoin equivalent of some 300 to decrypt them. The Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center said 2,000 computers in Japan were reported affected so far, citing an affiliate foreign security organization that it cannot identify. But a Japanese nonprofit said computers at 600 locations had been hit in the cyberattack. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.