Brain Cipher Ransomware Targets Indonesia’s National Data Center in Major Cyberattack

A new ransomware operation known as Brain Cipher has emerged, targeting organizations worldwide. This operation recently gained media attention due to an attack on Indonesia’s temporary National Data Center.

Indonesia is developing National Data Centers to securely store servers used by the government for online services and data hosting. On June 20th, one of these temporary centers was attacked, leading to the encryption of government servers. This disruption affected immigration services, passport control, event permit issuance, and other online services.

The Indonesian government confirmed that Brain Cipher, a new ransomware operation, was responsible for the attack, impacting over 200 government agencies. The attackers demanded $8 million in Monero cryptocurrency for a decryptor and to prevent the leak of allegedly stolen data.

BleepingComputer has learned from negotiation chats that the threat actors claimed they would issue a “press release” about the “quality of personal data protection” in the attack, implying that data was stolen.

Brain Cipher is a new ransomware operation that began earlier this month and has been conducting attacks on organizations worldwide. Initially, the ransomware gang did not have a data leak site, but their latest ransom notes now include links to one, indicating their use of double-extortion tactics. Bleeping

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