Once hackers have control of a city’s files, local leaders have a decision to make: Pay the bounty or forge ahead with a disaster-recovery effort
Some say paying hackers to release hijacked data encourages more attacks. Others say it can be the responsible thing to do.Cities across the U.S. face a growing threat from ransomware, where cybercriminals infiltrate computer systems and hijack data, vowing to delete critical files unless they receive payment.
It is difficult to say exactly how many such attacks have taken place in recent years, as there is no centralized agency that tracks them and many go unreported. But research firm Recorded Future says it has tracked 71 ransomware attacks against state and local governments so far this year, compared with 54 in 2018. (The firm counts a recent...
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