SLCERT in talks with Anti-Virus developers after ransomware attack wiped email data.
The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) said that the assistance from international antivirus development agencies will be obtained to recover the emails that were lost following a ransomware attack that targeted multiple government websites recently.
Charuka Damunupola from SLCERT said that exchanges in this regard are already underway.
Sri Lanka’s government email network was hit by a ransomware attack that wiped months of data from thousands of email accounts.
The attack affected nearly 5,000 email addresses using the gov.lk email domain.