It’s been three weeks since SamSam ransomware strain struck the municipality system of Atlanta city. Even though ransomware removal works were concluded in first few days, the restoration of online…
Nearly two months ago, Colorado’s Department of Transportation (CDOT) was hit by a SamSam attack that brought down the back-office network of the department. The attack affected some of the…
According to a local new outlet, SamSam attack on Atlanta’s municipal system has cost the administration roughly 2.7 million dollars in employing different system upgrades and ransomware repair measures. Some…
It’s not just an overstatement that ransomware attacks can culminate into the losses of millions. According to the Colorado’s Department of Transportation (CDOT), they have spent somewhere between 1 to…
Unprecedented cyber attacks on the networks of local administration in Atlanta have sent a ripple of worry across the cyber security community. They are of the belief that such attacks…
On the morning of March 22nd , majority of Atlanta’s municipal employees were sent home because the entire computer network of the city government was facing an unrevealed blackout. Later on,…
Ransomware has always been one of the most malicious computer viruses ever designed. Most ransomware packages operate by infecting the users’ PCs and locking them out of their files through…
Over the weekend, the automated dispatch system of 911 in Baltimore sustained a cyber attack, which resulted into 17 hour shutdown of the automatic emergency services. Following the attack, Baltimore’s…
Ransomware has become a major problem for both the average home PC users as well as multibillion dollar corporations. They both face similar threats of having their valuable information stolen,…
AllScripts — an electronic healthcare record (EHR) — was recently hit by a ransomware named SamSam. The website of the company was hit on January 18 after two data centers…
