From blackouts to ransomware: City of Joburg combats new threat

By Paul Burkhardt

(Bloomberg) – South Africa’s largest city is used to dealing with national power outages that snarl traffic and cause delays due to operational issues at state-owned utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. Now Johannesburg’s electricity company has been targeted by hackers.

#Update City Power has been hit by a Ransomware virus. it has encrypted all our databases, applications and network. Currently our ICT department is cleaning and rebuilding all impacted applications.^GR

— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) July 25, 2019