News / Toll Group resists ransom demands from hackers after cyber attack

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Toll Group is having a tough year, and has confirmed that the “unusual activity” on its servers last week was a cyber attack, which has now led to ransom demands.

The threat – unrelated to the attack on Toll in January – involves ransomware called Nefilim.

The hackers accessed a corporate server containing information on Toll staff and some commercial agreements with enterprise customers, although Toll said the server was not “designed as a repository for customer operational data”.

Toll said the hackers had ...