Attack on 6,700 servers with the Lilu encryption virus. Cybercriminals are demanding a ransom for unblocking the access to the encrypted websites.

According to the ZDNet portal, hackers break into poorly secured www servers that are run on the Linux OS. In order to extort a ransom, they encrypt the code of the website, but only that containing the HTML, SHTML, JS, CSS, PHP and INI extensions.
The victim is then redirected to websites on darkweb. Unlocking the access is priced at 0.03 bitcoin, which translates to around $ 325.

According to the experts from ZDNet, there may be even more victims, due to the fact that that not all Linux servers were indexed in Google search engine.