{"id":56215,"date":"2017-01-23T09:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=56215"},"modified":"2017-01-23T09:49:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:49:24","slug":"ransomware-takes-horse-racing-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/ransomware-takes-horse-racing-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Racing Site Forced Offline After Third Consecutive\u00a0Ransomware Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Three Strikes&#8211;You&#8217;re Out!<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackread.com\/india-horse-racing-site-hacked-with-dharma-ransomware\/\">Racing Pulse<\/a>, a popular horse racing website that is based out of Bangalore, India, was forced offline\u00a0on January 17, 2017\u00a0after suffering its third ransomware attack in a week.\u00a0\u00a0The last, and most critical, encrypted their entire site.<\/p>\n<p>Dharma ransomware, the variant that took down Racing Pulse, encrypted all of the website&#8217;s data.\u00a0 The exact ransom demand was not disclosed by the hackers in the initial ransom note.\u00a0 Instead, they said the amount required to decrypt the site would depend on how quickly the site officials reached out to the hackers for the decryption keys.\u00a0 In a sign if &#8220;good faith&#8221; the hackers offered to decrypt three files for free.\u00a0 These files could contain anything of value, and could not be any larger than 10 MB.<\/p>\n<p>Site officials reported to Hack Read, the server that was encrypted was located in the United States.\u00a0 To mitigate the risk of future attacks, the site plans to relocate another server.\u00a0 It was anticipated the site would be running by January 22, 2017; however, as of today, it remains unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>To see a full list of ransomware attacks that have taken place so far in 2017, you can click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/09\/2017-ransomware-attacks\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Strikes&#8211;You&#8217;re Out! 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