Cyber attacks: Cities and municipalities increasingly targeted
Attacks on municipalities, healthcare and education have doubled since August 2022. This is what the Barracuda ransomware report reports. Barracuda has released the results of its fifth annual ransomware report. As the basis for the report, the cloud security specialist identified and analyzed 175 publicly reported attacks from the last 12 months. A worrying finding of the report is that successful ransomware attacks in the three social sectors of municipalities, education and healthcare have more than quadrupled since 2021. Attacks on finance are declining. Attacks on cities and municipalities increased between August 2022 and July...
