U.S –   Heavy sources have brought to light that at least 31 organizations’ networks have been hit by a crippling attack of new ransomware by Evil Corp Hackers.

Fear spreads as people are suggesting that it will have an adverse effect on the upcoming U.S elections as voting systems could be targeted next. The two alleged leaders had been known to be indicted by the U.S Government for stealing millions for multiple countries through malware and ransomware, placing a $5 million dollar bounty on their heads. The two Russian leaders are still at large with the biggest amount of reward money ever placed for cyber criminals before.

The Evil Corp Ransomware known as WastedLocker is a variant of the infamous Evil Corp Ransomware that grips files hostage and only releases the files seized once a ransom is paid which could range from $500,000 to $1 million dollars, stated Symantec Corporation.

Out of the targets hit by WastedLocker, fortune 500 companies were hit with an interesting fact that 8 out of 9 of them are U.S based while one of them was a U.S based branch of a foreign company. The Department of Homeland Security expressed worries for the voter base on the coming elections citing increased safeguards for the voting databases to be pushed ahead of schedule to ensure the protection of voters and their cyber security.

Two Russian intelligence officers were charged with hacking during the 2016 elections for spear phishing emails and using malicious software to attack the Democratic officials at the time. Hacker had stolen data from a election board site amounting in half a million voters that Moscow had denied stating there is no evidence linking their intelligence to the sabotage.

Work from Home employees and various workers who utilize the use of virtual private networks (VPN) have been the main target of hackers who infect the user’s computer whenever they visit public or commercial sites with the hacker’s nodes lying in wait to latch onto the employee’s connection, describes Symantec Technical Director Eric Chien.

Evil Corp’s alleged leaders Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev still remain at large to this day even after their were charged by the U.S government after they had victimized religious organizations, small time businesses and multiple websites in what was a grid net of data extraction that rivaled the intelligence gathering offices of various governments.

Everyone must exercise internet caution, states many cyber security experts hoping to curb the threat of more data leaks.