Dish Network Hit With Multi-Day Outage, Suspected Ransomware Attack

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  1. hawki

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    "The satellite-TV provider's websites, apps, and internal systems have been down since Thursday, leaving employees unable to work and customers prevented from paying Dish bills...

    Dish employees told Bleeping Computer they are seeing “blank icons” on their desktop, typical of a ransomware infection that has encrypted files.

    According to a Dish employee who spoke to BleepingComputer, their manager told them the incident 'was caused by a known threat agent,' though the satellite-TV provider is currently in the dark on how they gained access..."

    BleepingComputer also reports that Dish customers are having issues when they try to sign in to TV channel apps like MTV and Starz with their Dish logins. Dish customers have taken to social media to report that they cannot activate equipment or SIM cards from the company. Customers have also said they are being prevented from paying their bills...."

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/dish-network-hit-with-multi-day-outage-suspected-ransomware-attack
     
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