Swedish banks are threatened by hacker attack – 24kristianstad.see

Swedbank is one of the banks that are threatened. Photo: Flickr

A group calling itself NewWorldHacker threaten the companies, banks and state-owned organizations in Sweden. So far, at least one police reported.

According to the police, threatening NewWorldHacker to implement a massive denial of service attack if not for 1.4 bitcoins is transferred to their account within a couple of days.

the hacker group threaten the in addition to damage all the computers in the corporate and the banks ‘ network by placing ransomware. The virus makes it impossible to open the computer’s files and demands a ransom for them to be locked up.

the Police advice is clear: Pay never blackmailer and polisanmäl if you are exposed to a hacker attack. Save all technical information and communicate this to the police, writes SVT.

A bitcoin is equivalent to approximately 6 500 sek.

3, who is the police national computer cybercrime centre, the accept tips email address: itbrott.desk.noa@polisen.se