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…