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What is the goal of ransomware attacks on cities and towns?
What is the goal of ransomware attacks on cities and towns?

There are more and more reports in the media about cyber attacks with ransomware on cities, municipalities and their administrations. However, no administration pays the ransom. So who benefits from all this? Richard Werner, business consultant at Trend Micro, gives very interesting answers to B2B CYBER SECURITY in an interview. The list of cities and communities attacked is now really long. Just recently, 12 Bavarian communities were paralyzed and blackmailed. Before that, there was a cyber attack with ransomware on the IT service provider Südwestfalen-IT by the Akira ransomware group. The provider supplies, among other things, 72 municipalities with IT services. All…

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Cyber ​​attack: 12 Bavarian communities paralyzed
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As various media reports, the “Special purpose association for municipal data processing in the district of Neu-Ulm” was the victim of a cyber attack. As a result, the citizens' offices in 12 municipalities are hardly able to work. According to BR24, the provider should pay a ransom for its data. The website of the municipality of Roggenburg in Bavaria only shows the simple message “Due to a system failure at our data center, services in the municipal administration can currently only be offered to a limited extent.” However, the BR24 portal reports a cyber attack on the “Purpose Association for Municipal Data Processing in the District of Neu-Ulm”. According to the membership directory, 12 communities are affected: Altenstadt, Kellmünz ad….

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