— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Since early May, Baltimore has been grappling with a city-crippling ransomware attack. A fiery debate has erupted within the information security community over who is to blame for the mess. The match that lit the blaze: A story published by the The New York…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The New York Times reported on Saturday that a hacking vulnerability known as EternalBlue has been exploited to blackmail Baltimore’s local government. The NSA discovered the flaw, but the paper claims that its cyber-spies kept the discovery secret for years. The NSA…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The US city of Baltimore’s government, long plagued by dysfunction, is now battling a ransomware attack that has crippled its systems for more than two weeks and counting. Hackers breached the Maryland city’s servers on 7 May and demanded $100,000 (£79,000) worth…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The city that reads, Baltimore, is only the latest U.S. city to fall prey to a crippling ransomware attack. This time, the attackers appear to have leveraged a new ransomware variant called RobbinHood, which crept under firewalls crippling key city systems. In all,…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Three large chemical manufacturing companies based in Norway and the US have fallen victim to ransomware attacks, after a program called LockerGoga gained access to systems, encrypted files and disrupted operations. On 19 March the global aluminium producer Norsk Hydro was…
