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How to protect system against Baltimore Ransomware Attack?

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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...