ATLANTA — A day after a ransomware cyberattack hobbled the city of Atlanta’s computer network, city officials said Friday they were working around the clock to get things up and running again. The city’s information security team noticed that something was amiss with the city’s server about 5:40 a.m. Thursday and began an investigation. The attack included the encryption of some city data and caused outages for numerous city applications, officials said. Many of the city’s systems were taken offline as a precaution, and Rackley said she couldn’t give a definitive timeline for when she expected things to return to normal. The Atlanta attack bears the hallmarks of the SamSam ransomware, and what the city’s information security team likely saw was something trying to log on from outside the organization, he said.

Source: National Post March 23, 2018 13:41 UTC