How to protect system against Baltimore Ransomware Attack?
Guide to prevent Baltimore Ransomware
Attack
Ransomware attacks have no dearth of cautionary tales & wake up calls from the past
few years. However, this year in particular has been a brutal reminder of the
threat. Determining whether to burn a hole in your pocket or not is a baffling
situation that is realised only when your system is hit by a Ransomware.
The recent
addition to the clan of crypto-viruses is Baltimore Ransomware. This nasty
file-locking Ransomware variant called RobinHood pounced on the American city
of Baltimore on May 7, 2019. The
government computer systems were infected, servers were taken offline &
systems across the city remained inoperative for the employees for months.
Baltimore
was the latest big US city, after Atlanta, Georgia and San Antonio, Texas, to
be crippled with Ransomware attack in May 2019. Smaller cities like Greenville,
North Carolina and Allentown, Pennsylvania were also targeted.
The
painstaking process of the city’s recovery from Baltimore Ransomware took
months and the fallout from the attack hasn’t been completely coped until
today.
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