The City of Baltimore was attacked with a very aggressive variant of the Robbinhood ransomware on May 8 for the second time in 14 months.
Some city departments, including the police, inspector general’s office, and the city’s departments of transportation and public works reported problems with email and phone systems.
Baltimore City Ransomware Attack: Hacker Demands
The hackers demanded 13 Bitcoin ($80,000), to restore the encrypted systems.
For the time being, city workers will have to perform tasks manually”.
Unfortunately, it’s a race between bad actors and the cyber security industry.”
The FBI has reportedly been unsuccessful this week in trying to crack the PIN on a phone belonging to the suspect in Sunday's mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.
FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said if the suspect used a six- or eight-digit passcode, it could take months or years to break, The Hill reported Thursday.
The shooting left nine people dead and 27 injured.
The suspected shooter was killed by police at the scene.
The FBI has been able to unlock one of the alleged shooter's phones, a Samsung device, a Senate Democratic source told CBS News Thursday.
However, the suspect, Connor Betts, of Bellbrook, Ohio, had multiple phones.
Biometric technology is a system, which measures the statistical analytics of any individual, based on the physiological and behavioural characteristics.
Increasing demand for authentication and high security are the major factors driving growth of the global biometric vehicle access market
Privacy is the major concern regarding biometric solution resulting in the increasing demand for authentication.
Vehicle theft is one of the major problems faced by the consumers due to lack of security systems in the vehicles.
Therefore, increasing threat of vehicle stealing is resulting in increasing demand for biometric authentication solutions in vehicles, which is a safer security solution.
Therefore, the probabilities of fraudulence in the fingerprint recognition system is less than that in the conventional recognition, which is expected to significantly increase the use of finger print recognition systems in the biometric vehicles.
The trend of attacking Managed IT Service Providers is continuing.
An MSP paid hackers about $150,000 to unlock data
Hackers specifically targeting MSP software platforms to launch ransomware attacks
Ryuk ransomware hitting a Cloud Service Provider that works closely with MSPs.
Hackers have been hitting MSPs of all sizes — not just global technology service providers.
of Homeland Security have repeatedly warned MSPs and their technology platform providers about such attacks.
