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Garmin outage caused by confirmed WastedLocker ransomware attack

Garmin shut down some of its connected services and call centers on Thursday following what the company called a worldwide outage. The company’s Indian branch first tweeted about some servers being shut down due to planned maintenance nine hours ago that would limit the performance of the Garmin Express, Garmin Connect mobile, and website. Garmin employee told BleepingComputer that they first learned of the attack when they arrived at their office on Thursday morning. Employees were told to shut down any computers on the network as devices were being encrypted, including home computers connected via VPN.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/garmin-outage-caused-by-confirmed-wastedlocker-ransomware-attack/

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