Black and White Cabs

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2023: Shutdown after cyber attack

In early February 2023, the digital travel booking service Australia at Black and White Cabs was forced to stop working after cyber attacks intruders, leaving passengers with disabilities and children temporarily stranded. Frustrated users expressed their dissatisfaction social networks in the after.

Suspicious activity was detected by staff on 1 February 2023 in the morning and a "serious threat" to Black and White Cabs was identified in the afternoon. A cyber attack on the company disabled the phone and online booking system on the service.

One of Australia's largest taxi calling services has been shut down by a cyber attack

On February 3, 2023, representatives of Black and White Cabs confirmed that the CryptoLocker virus had penetrated its network security and reported the attack to the Australia Center. cyber security Black and White Cabs managing director Greg Webb said information security specialists and the Black and White Cabs IT team are conducting an internal investigation for judicial review.

We take customer information protection very seriously and that remains our high priority. Unfortunately, the recovery of our systems is still a long way off, since we do not want to resume work when there is any doubt that the virus is not yet localized. While we are investigating, we have temporarily shut down some of our client systems. Our team is contacting customers and account holders to keep them informed, "said Black and White Cabs managing director Greg Webb.

The CryptoLocker virus breaks into users' documents and asks them to pay a ransom with a very limited payment period. Hackers use social engineering techniques to force the user to run this program. The ransomware virus generates a random symmetric key for each file it intends to encrypt, and then encrypts the contents of the file using the AES algorithm using this key. The program then encrypts the random key using an asymmetric public-private key (RSA) encryption algorithm and keys longer than 1024 bits, and adds it to the encrypted file.^[1]

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