Massachusetts city tells ransomware scumbags to RYUK off, our IT staff will handle this easily

Massachusetts city tells ransomware scumbags to RYUK off, our IT staff will handle this easily

Oh, so you can just do that? That's possible? Restoring from clean, good backups after an infection? Who knew?


The City of New Bedford, in Massachusetts, has found a way to deal with ransomware without paying: shoring up defenses, restoring from backups, and rebuilding systems.


The attack on the American city's systems was identified on July 5, after employees noticed unusual network activity upon returning from the July 4th holiday, Mayor Jon Mitchell explained in a press conference on Wednesday.


"We haven't seen any interruption in municipal services at all," said Mitchell.


The city's Management Information Systems (MIS) staff identified the presence of the file-scrambling RYUK nasty, a sophisticated form of ransomware, and through ..

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