Russian hackers broke the casino and hotel in Las Vegas: require a huge ransom (video)

All equipment has failed: from gaming machines to electronic locks in rooms. One of the victims agreed to pay $ 15 million. Russian Hackers on Blackcat Group last Monday attacked a casino of the MGM Resorts complex, as well as an elite hotel that is part of the CAESARS Entertainment structure and demanded a $ 30 million ransom. About it reports Interesting Engineering. As a result of cyberattacks, the equipment has not operated for more than four days: from gaming machines to communication systems.

Thousands of guests were closed or unable to get to their hotel rooms. For an attack on American business hackers used a social engineering scheme in which a person who issued himself for an employee turned to the company's IT service to change the password. All you need was to find a Linkedin employee who worked at MGM in the business social network, having issued a team member and call the support service to ask the password. Within 10 minutes the whole system was broken.

As a result, hackers managed not only to completely disrupt the work of institutions, but also to eat personal information about guests and employees of MGM. According to The Wall Street Journal, Hackers require $ 30 million on the caesars hotels. The hotel management agreed with cybercrime to a 50%discount, getting ready to pay them $ 15 million. The company will include the cost of redemption in the documentation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The FBI stated that they were aware of the situation and investigating. And if the caesars hotel network has agreed to pay the ransom, then the MGM owned by the casino is still waiting. According to cyberfactors from VX-UndeerGround, the corporation is likely to not agree to pay money to Russian hackers. Security experts say Russian Hackers with Blackcat have previously taken responsibility for attacks on organizations such as Reddit and Western Digital.

They are well known in the extortion industry and cybersecurity. The hacker company has exposed to cyberattacks at least 60 organizations. This group uses different methods to penetrate the company, including the so -called social engineering. They will call the company employees and persuade them to visit harmful sites or call the company support service to access corporate networks.