There is a war hitting small-town America. Hackers are not only on our shores, but they’re in our water districts, in our regional hospitals, and in our 911 emergency systems.
The target du jour of ransomware hackers is small towns and they have gone after them with a vengeance. Last month, the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, declared a “Level 2 Escalated Response” as 22 of Texas’s cities were hit simultaneously with ransomware attacks, crippling local government functions. This is only declared when local authorities and first responders cannot deal with a disaster on their own and is only one step below a Level 1 Disaster declaration used for wide-area natural disasters.
This isn’t the first time ransomware hackers have gone after small governments, and it won’t be the last. According to security experts, these attacks were coordinated ..
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