A now-suspended Twitter account that taunted and warned the mayor of Baltimore to pay the ransom for the city’s hijacked servers has been confirmed to be that of the actual attacker who launched the May 7 ransomware campaign on the city. Researchers at security firm Armor who have been investigating the documents leaked via the now-defunct account — which was suspended by Twitter this afternoon after posting a tweet riddled with obscenities — earlier told Dark Reading they had suspected the account was run by the actual attacker.

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