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Montgomery County Hit With Ransomware – Pays $40-$50,000 To Get Files Back

Montgomery County, Alabama joined the ranks of probably millions of others and paid a ransom to get their data back after hackers threatened to erase their data if the ransom was not paid within 7 days. While details are sketchy, reports are that the attack began Monday around 5PM (at the end of the day) […]

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Hackers Shut Down Entire School District For Days

All schools in Flathead County, Montana schools were closed on September 14 and 15 and all extracurricular activities and athletic events cancelled as a result of a ransom threat from the well known hacker(s) called The Dark Overlord. This was not a ransomware attack where the district’s data would have been encrypted, demanding a ransom […]

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Maersk Says Ransomware Will Cost Them $200-$300 Million

In case you thought that people were overhyping the effects of ransomware,  perhaps you should rethink that. The Maersk shipping line, which runs container ships and ports around the world, among many other businesses, had to shut down some of their port operations after computers were infected with the NotPetya ransomware. This week Maersk’s CEO […]

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The $10 Million Alternative to Paying Ransomware

Earlier this year, the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, New York was hit with a ransomware attack.  ECMC is a level 1 trauma center, teaching hospital and regional center for a variety of medical services – including, unfortunately, ransomware. At 2 A.M. on Palm Sunday computer screens across the medical center flashed “What happened […]

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