National CERT encourages added security measures.
Oil and gas entities across Pakistan were impacted by the Blue Locker ransomware gang.
Businesses including Pakistan Petroleum Limited were hit, with the country’s National Cyber Emergency Response Team urging the implementation of multi-factor authentication, offline backups, network segmentation, and other security measures to combat the threat. Additional cybersecurity defences have already been activated by other critical infrastructure organisations across Pakistan.
Malicious emails and attachments, as well as vulnerable remote access, have been leveraged to spread Blue Locker ransomware, which was noted by Resecurity researchers to be associated with Proton ransomware, while having an Iranian or dark web source code origin, reports GBHackers News.
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