Local governments were not always high on the ransom target list. “As health care has spent more on their security, we’ve seen attackers moving to local governments,” said Allan Liska, a senior intelligence analyst at Recorded Future, a security firm. PhotoIn Atlanta, the attack apparently mounted by the SamSam group brought down many (though not all) city systems on the morning of March 22. She is scheduled to brief other state and local governments on Friday about the double whammy. We need to give other local governments information on SamSam so it doesn’t happen to them.

Source: New York Times March 29, 2018 18:45 UTC