Indonesia PDNS Brain Cipher (LockBit 3.0) ransomware (2024)
Brain Cipher — a Lockbit 3.0–derived ransomware — encrypted Indonesia's Temporary National Data Center (PDNS), paralysing 282 government digital services from immigration to passport issuance for weeks. Attackers demanded $8M; the government refused. Brain Cipher subsequently released a decryptor free of charge, with an apology.
- Victim
- Pusat Data Nasional Sementara (PDNS), Indonesia