FBI Investigating Baltimore City Ransomware Attack, As Internal Network Continues To Have Issues
FBI Investigating Baltimore City Ransomware Attack, As
Internal Network Continues To Have Issues
By Pat WarrenMay 10, 2019 at 1:17 pm
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The FBI is investigating a ransomware
attack on Baltimore City’s network, while city officials try to bring back the
network to its full capacity.
Although city services are no longer are being affected,
hackers are still accessing the system, according to Mayor Jack Young.
“These people are so sophisticated that their job is just
to disrupt,” Young said. “I wish they would use it for more good than they are
for just bad in trying to extort money from cities and companies. It’s just not
right.”
It was discovered Tuesday that the system was taken
offline, and technicians continue to work on fixing it.
Details not being released, but ransomware is a type of
malware that prevents users from accessing their files unless they pay. Here’s
what the mayor wants you to know:
“No city services have been affected. People were able to
get their cars at the towing yard, people come in and pay in cash or money
orders or they can mail their payments in. So all the city is functioning.
We’re doing it a different way and the citizens of Baltimore are not being
affected we just cannot get emails and those kinds of things,” Young said. “We
are moving forward and citizens should not notice anything other than they have
to come in and do things manually.”
The mayor said city employees are still working and the
only change for them is they cannot access computers.
As for the ransom, Young said they won’t be paying.
In a news conference, the City’s Chief of Information
Technology said that the FBI has confirmed this is a very aggressive
ransomware.
Thanks for updating us about the Baltimore city attack. I like to read about ransomware and viruses and found a few more blogs explaining FBI ransomware. Is it really a big thing?
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