The Six Million Dollar Scam: London cops probe Travelex cyber-ransacking amid reports of £m ransomware demand, wide-open VPN server holes

The Six Million Dollar Scam: London cops probe Travelex cyber-ransacking amid reports of £m ransomware demand, wide-open VPN server holes

We can rebuild him, we have the backups... er, right?


More than a week after its website and online services were taken offline by malware, foreign currency super-exchange Travelex continues to battle through what has become an increasingly damaging outage that may have unpatched VPN servers at its heart.


London's Metropolitan Police confirmed to El Reg on Tuesday its officers are probing the cyber-break-in. While the capital's cops declined to name a specific victim, a spokesperson told us: "On Thursday, 2 January the Met’s Cyber Crime Team were contacted with regards to a reported ransomware attack involving a foreign currency exchange. Enquiries into the circumstances are ongoing."


Earlier, we learned the identity of the software nasty that infected the UK-headquartered biz and encrypted its files: the Sodinokibi Windows ransomware. And its criminal masterminds have demanded $6m (£4.6m) from Travelex to restore the scrambled dat ..

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