Ransomware attack on Texas Police took place which wipes off eight years of digital evidence that belong to Cockrel Hill Police Department.The ransomware which is identified to be Osiris infected the servers through email spoofing. Osiris Ransomware is the newest variant of Locky ransomware. The virus corrupted all the files on the server from the year 2009.It suspected that Ukranian based hackers are behind this attack. The report says that some staff clicked the email which was spoofed to look like the department mail and thereby affecting the servers.The attackers asked for a 4000$ ransom in bitcoins for decrypting the files.FBI advised the police department not to pay ransom because not all ransomware attack sends the decryption key.The FBI’s Cybercrimes unit decided that the reliable way to cleanse all traces of the virus was to wipe the server of all infected files.The Cybercrime unit and the police department wiped the server of all infected files by destroying Microsoft Office documents, few in car videos and police in-house surveillance video. Cockrell police do not know how much digital data lost in the ransomware attack.However, Cockrell Police Department assured that they have the hard copies of most of the data on CD or DVD.However, the backup was made manually and wasn’t automatic.The automatic backup started only after the server was affected, and it backed up few infected files. Read more on Ransomware attacks: Ransomware Attacks Spreads Like A WildfireOsiris Ransomware adds .osiris suffix to encrypted files and modifies filenames, so they look like - Filename.Osiris. RSA-2048 and AES-128 algorithms were used by Osiris to encrypts the file that currently cannot be decrypted.Osiris ransomware modifies desktop background with a standard image with text instructions. The user can only make payment to anonymous Bitcoin wallets. Hence, police cannot keep the track on criminals. 
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