Garmin, a multinational company, may have paid ransoms to hackers or face sanctions from the US government

According to A recent report from Bleeping Computer, Garmin, a major U.S. maker of GPS navigation devices and sports wearables that suffered a WastedLocker attack, may have paid a ransom to criminals.

Garmin claims that its IT department defused the attack using a decryptor, but the report shows that the ransomware used in the attack had no flaws in the encryption algorithm, which the report says proves that Garmin must have paid the attacker a ransom to get the site back on track. In addition, the report argues that Garmin's script contains a "07/25/2020" timestamp indicating that the ransom was paid on July 24 or 25.

It was previously reported by RhythmThe U.S. Treasury Department designated Evil Corp as an illegal group in December 2019. As a result, Garmin will be subject to sanctions by the U.S. government if he pays a ransom that would violate U.S. law.

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