Exclusive: Nigerian cloud provider affected in Phobos ransomware attack

Nigerian cloud provider hit with ransomware attack as government agency works to “swiftly resolve incident”

Hackers took over the company’s infrastructure and encrypted their files, the same person said, declining to provide a timeline for the incident because he was not authorised to comment.

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