135: The D.R. Incident

520.054 - 541.462 Jack Rhysider

It was coordinated that when enough systems got infected, it would trigger the ransomware to lock all the computers at once and demand payment to unlock them. Now, the motive behind putting ransomware on systems like this is typically just to make money. I believe they were asking for $20 million to unlock Costa Rica's systems. So whoever did this seemed to be there only for financial gain.