Some of Britain's biggest high street banks were hit byan outage at the foreign exchange operator STEVE PARSONS/PAThe UK-listed group behind Travelex has said that the foreign exchange business is still not operating fully a week after it was hit by a cyberattack. Giving an update on its investigation, Finablr said that the software virus it had detected on December 31 was ransomware known as Sodinokibi, or Revil. It confirmed that while there had been some data encryption, there was no evidence that personal customer data had been encrypted or that any data had been exfiltrated. “Travelex is gradually restoring a number of internal systems and is working to resume normal operations as quickly as possible,” Finablr said. The attack is a setback for Finablr, which was listed in London in May last year, when it floated at 175p a share and…

Source: The Times January 09, 2020 00:00 UTC