Nearly $350K ransom paid by Pennsylvania county following January attack

Pennsylvania’s Washington County has provided $346,687 worth of cryptocurrency to suspected Russian hackers behind a ransomware attack against its systems last month, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Such an attack, which targeted the county’s network and crippled its entire operations, was “unprecedented,”

Source: SC Magazine

 


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