Cybersecurity incident — 2021-05-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: Pronsticos Deportivos
Affected country: Mexico
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Data Attack,Undetermined
Motive: Financial
Actor: Avaddon
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation

Mexico's Pronsticos Deportivos suffers an Avaddon ransomware attack and blocks access to IP addresses outside of Mexico after the ransomware gang threatened to perform denial of service attacks. The group also threatened to release more documents if negotiations didn't begin within 10 days.