Ransomware attacks are becoming more sophisticated and taking longer for governments to recover from. Some of Baltimore’s services have been down for nearly a month.
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- Baltimore suffered a ransomware attack nearly a month ago and has yet to restore critical networks.
- The city refuses to pay the hackers and is asking the federal government for financial aid.
- Ransomware attacks on governments are on the rise — and becoming more sophisticated.
Cyberattacks on local governments are on the rise — and they’re becoming more sophisticated. The latest case in Baltimore, where the city is still struggling to restore critical networks more than three weeks after being hacked, could be a harbinger of things to come.
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BY LIZ FARMER | MAY 30, 2019 AT 5:21 PM