More than 100 dentist offices have reportedly been affected by a recent Sodinokibi ransomware attack on a Colorado-based company that provides IT services to the oral-care practices.
Security expert Brian Krebs reported this past weekend via his blog post that Englewood, Colo.-based Complete Technology Solutions (CTS), was attacked back on Nov. 25, apparently via a compromised remote administration tool.
Many of CTS’ clients are reportedly still affected and scrambling to salvage their data and business operations. Representatives from affected practices as well as firms hired to help them told Krebs that CTS declined to pay a $700,000 ransomware demand.
Some individual dental offices have reportedly opted to pay the attackers smaller amounts in order to decrypt just their own data. However, in at least certain cases, the practices actually received multiple ransom notes and needed to purchase multiple decryption keys in order to recover all of their files, instead of only a portion.
Gary Salman, CEO of New York-Based Black Talon Security – a firm that assisted several of CTS’ clients – told Krebs that one network with 50 devices “had ..
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