GettyThe city that reads, Baltimore, is only the latest U.S. city to fall prey to a crippling ransomware attack. This time, the attackers appear to have leveraged a new ransomware variant called RobbinHood, which crept under firewalls crippling key city systems. Cities and the public sector more generally may not be the most lucrative ransomware targets, where the average ransom demand is around $116,000 for publicly disclosed ransoms. Nevertheless, they are falling one by one like so many dominoes in a rally to emerging ransomware threats, for which RobbinHood is only the latest strain to emerge in the market. In Baltimore’s case, like most severe ransomware attacks, fully restoring systems may take months according to city leaders.

Source: Forbes May 21, 2019 12:22 UTC