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In this first part of a two part series, Shawn Taylor with Forescout talks to Threatpost about lessons learned from helping Atlanta remediate and recover from its massive ransomware attack. Continue reading Why Cities Are a Low-Hanging Fruit For Ransomware
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
A municipality in Florida fired its IT director shortly after paying off bad actors who infected its computer systems with ransomware. Joe Helfenberg, the city manager of Lake City, confirmed to WCJB that the municipality fired Brian Hawkins, who was i… Continue reading Florida City Fires IT Director after Meeting Ransomware Actors’ Demands
After being hit by a ransomware attack, the second Florida city this month has opted to pay hackers their requested ransom. Continue reading Second Florida City Pays Hackers $500k Post-Ransomware Attack
The City of Lake City has confirmed that a “Triple Threat” ransomware attack affected the functionality of several of its computer systems. According to its Facebook statement, the Floridian municipality became the target of a ransomware pr… Continue reading Lake City Reveals It Suffered a ‘Triple Threat’ Ransomware Attack