The security of Bulgarian e-mail has been compromised by the use of ransomware. The incident happened before the Orthodox Easter holidays.

The two main areas affected are postal mail handling and the payment of retirement benefits.

About a week before the attempt to pay retirement benefits, the attackers broke into the Bulgarian e-mail server. The day after the payment of benefits (April 15), encryption of the Bulgarian mail servers began. Backup servers also fell under the attack.


According to Bulgaria's deputy prime minister:

     6,600 computers, 100 servers are attacked
     3,000 computers were over 15 years old, the rest had outdated software
     for many years, investment in information security has been neglected due to the lack of funds by the Bulgarian Post Office.

Source: sekurak