Costa Ricans struggled to pay taxes by hand Monday after a ransomware cyberattack took down the country’s online tax collection system.
With no option to pay the VAT online, the Finance Ministry has instructed people to download a program called EDDI7, which works only on Windows operating systems, and then fill in their tax information, print out the forms and physically take them to government-approved banks to pay their taxes.
That system has led to a host of problems, such as customers’ waiting at banks for hours to pay on Monday,Alex Vargas, a photographer who lives in a coastal area far from the capital, San José, said that because he uses only Apple Macintosh computers at his office, he had to take his business filings home to use the program on his home computer and then spend the day traveling to and from an approved bank because his local one wasn’t authorized to collect the VAT.
“The whole country is trying to pay taxes at the same time,” Vargas said in a Twitter direct message. “Going to a bank is not the problem. The problem is wasting 2 hours there or more.”“The app looks like a program from more than 20 years ago,” he said. Conti, one of the most notorious active cybercriminal gangs, previously locked up computer networks for Ireland’s national health care system, withAfter the cyberattack on Costa Rica, the U.S. State DepartmentChaves said Monday that Conti had collaborators working within his country’s government, according to an account of a news conference“We are at war and that is not an exaggeration,” Chaves said. “People inside the country are collaborating with Conti.
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