RE: Has there been in-the-wild i Series virus? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: Has there been in-the-wild i Series virus?
From: Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 21:04:39 +0000
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Is that from HelpSystems? The story they tell is a customer with an infected PC and a mapped drive connected to the root of the customer's IBMi.

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From: Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: RE: Has there been in-the-wild i Series virus?

Target in 2014.

"When they finally scanned their IBM i server, they were shocked to find 248,095 files infected with CryptoWall, a highly destructive type of ransomware."

Paul

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