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The City of Yonkers has refused to pay the ransom after ransomware attackers demanded a ransom of $10 million to revive the disparate modules that overlay the different departments of the city.
Earlier this month, government employees at the City of Yonkers were restricted from accessing their laptops or computers after the city suffered a computer incursion by ransomware attackers. In the meantime, employees were told to restore as much data as possible manually from backups and this often means keeping pen and paper records that are transferred into databases.
The ransomware outbreak
Ransomware attacks against the local governments are rising with each passing day. Last year, at least 2,354 governments, healthcare facilities, and schools were targeted by ransomware attackers. The local governments are the lucrative targets because they are less equipped in terms of resources and capabilities.
A 2020 survey of state chief information security officers discovered that 70 percent listed ransomware as a top concern because of funding hurdles and lack of confidence in localities’ abilities to guard state information assets. And after
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