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IT workers have been storing files on their computers’ hard drives. One councilman’s alleged response: “That can’t be right? That’s real?”
Ransomware group gains access to dental software backend, deploys ransomware on customers' systems.
The Extortion Economy: How Insurance Companies Are Fueling a Rise in Ransomware Attacks — ProPublica
Even when public agencies and companies hit by ransomware could recover their files on their own, insurers prefer to pay the ransom. Why? The attacks are good for business.
The F.B.I. should follow the example of European law enforcement and help victims of ransomware decrypt their data.
FILE PHOTO: In a Jan. 25, 2018, photo, Dierra Rowland, 19, of Philadelphia, studies at the Indiana University of Pennsyl […]
Columbia Falls School District was in trouble. What started as a strange text message on the superintendent’s phone one day in mid-September 2017 had quickly become an email and then a chain of emails sent to school officials and parents threatening graphic violence in the district south of Montana’s Glacier National Park. And then, finally, […]
More than 100 years’ worth of Lake City's municipal records were hijacked by unidentified hackers who encrypted the city’s computer systems and demanded more than $460,000 in ransom.
Britney Taylor reports: Daviess County Public Library workers begin three days of work to restore systems affected by last week’s ransomware attack. The...
Deal or no deal, either way cities pay through the nose because of failed IT practices.
Quite thorough; includes mitigation suggestions.
Houses can't be sold, bills can't be paid while city networks are shuttered.
What if you got hit by ransomware – but the malware program itself was on the other side of the world where you’d never find it?
Check out this engaging and entertaining cybersecurity ad that doesn’t include a single hoodie or (even more remarkably) any furtive keyboard typing in a darkened room.
Ryuk lies in wait for as long as a year, then pounces on only the biggest prey.
In 2018, a remote Alaskan community’s infrastructure was hit by a malware attack which forced it offline. It was only then they realised how much they depended on computers.
The Los Angeles Community College District paid a $28,000 ransom in bitcoin last week to hackers who took control of a campus email and computer network until a payment was made.
Ransomware hasn’t gone away, but it is getting quieter and more targeted.
Leominster School District was the target of a ransomware attack last month which resulted in a $10,000 Bitcoin payment to anonymous cyber extortionists.
Atlanta’s city government has been struggling for days with ransomware that has crippled its computer networks and forced it back to doing business with ink and paper.