Google inadvertently thwarted Baltimore’s attempt to combat a major ransomware attack against the city earlier this week. In a ransomware attack, hackers typically encrypt a computer network’s data to hold it “hostage,” providing a digital decryption key to unlock it for a price. An Alaskan borough also had to dust off its typewriters following a major ransomware attack. In 2017, a major ransomware attack forced the shutdown of a host of IT systems at Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. ALASKAN BOROUGH DUSTS OFF TYPEWRITERS AFTER RANSOMWARE ATTACKAlso in 2017, a hacker targeted Sacramento Regional Transit, deleting 30 million files in a ransomware attack.

Source: Fox News May 24, 2019 14:52 UTC