Some residents of Johannesburg, South Africa, were left without electricity after the city’s power company got attacked by a ransomware virus. The company responsible for powering South Africa’s financial capital Johannesburg confirmed Thursday on Twitter that it had been hit by a Ransomware virus that had encrypted all of its databases, applications, and network. The attack prevented prepaid customers from buying electricity units, uploading invoices when making payments, or access the City Power’s official website, eventually leaving them without power. The clean up of the affected services and networks could take weeks.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/cyberattack-power-outage.html