government's website is up and running again after it was shut down following a ransomware attack early Monday morning. "This morning, government's website was the victim of what's known as a ransomware attack," said Scott Cudmore, an information security official with the province. "A ransomware attack is an exploit that exploits a vulnerability and allows an attacker to run a program that will encrypt or scramble all of the files on the machine's hard disk. The message said that website files had been encrypted, were no longer accessible and could be recovered by paying with Bitcoin. government website being hit by ransomware included screenshots, which the senders say were on the website early Monday morning.

Source: CBC News April 23, 2018 13:39 UTC