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Posted by Ratnesh Pandey, Alex Holland and Toby Gray. In June 2019, Microsoft issued warnings about a phishing campaign delivering a new variant of the FlawedAmmyy remote access Trojan (RAT), and a spike in the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882&… Continue reading Protect Before You Detect: FlawedAmmyy and the Case for Isolation
After suffering a ransomware attack that crippled municipal systems, the city of Lake City in Florida, USA, has fired its director of information technology. As the (updated) story goes, Lake City was initially hit without a ransom demand from the atta… Continue reading Lake City fires its IT director after paying hackers $460K in ransom
It turns out that hackers are a lot like retirees. When they’re looking for an easier life, they go to Florida. Lake City, a city of about 12,000 people between Tallahassee and Jacksonville, on Tuesday agreed to pay ransomware hackers 42 bitcoins, the equivalent $490,421, to unlock phone and email systems following a cyberattack, according to the Gainesville Sun. An insurer is paying most of that, with the city kicking in $10,000, the newspaper reported. Lake City’s news follows similar actions by the government of Riviera Beach, on the state’s Atlantic coast, which agreed last week to pay roughly $600,000 to recover. City leaders throughout the U.S. undoubtedly took notice of that case as well as the aftermath of the May ransomware attack in Baltimore, which knocked digital services offline. It cost taxpayers roughly $18 million after lawmakers declined to pay a ransom once worth roughly $104,000. While many businesses hit with ransomware quietly pay the digital […]
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Cybercriminals have learnt something very valuable in the last couple of weeks: in order to regain access to their data, cities in Florida are prepared to pay out huge Bitcoin ransoms to hackers.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Securit… Continue reading $1.1 million in two weeks – Florida cities pay out big to ransomware gangs
Cybercriminals have learnt something very valuable in the last couple of weeks: in order to regain access to their data, cities in Florida are prepared to pay out huge Bitcoin ransoms to hackers.
The post $1.1 million in two weeks – Florida citie… Continue reading $1.1 million in two weeks – Florida cities pay out big to ransomware gangs
The city of Riviera Beach, Florida, has “given in” to ransomware. And it’s the biggest municipal ransom we’ve seen: ₿65—about $600,000.
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Lake City has warned citizens that administrative systems, including email and credit card systems, are down following a ransomware attack on the Florida municipality. The attack, called “Triple Threat” in a press release issued by th… Continue reading Ransomware attack paralyses Lake City email, landlines and credit card services
Students at Labelle Senior High School sent an email addressed to all faculty, staff, and students about a “Mandatory Penis Inspection”…
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Warm weather and heavy rainfall sparked a massive breeding cycle for the invasive toads. Continue reading Thousands of Poisonous Toads Have Overrun a Florida Town
Companies can now apply for permits to shoot underwater airguns that hurt ecosystems to assess offshore drilling potential. Continue reading Trump Wants to Allow Seismic Oil Surveys in the Atlantic Ocean