Lincolnshire County Council was hit hard by malware that encrypted data files. Staff were forced to resort to pen and paper and make lots of phone calls. The earlier claim of a 1 million ransom demand has now been revised to a mere 350. As past victims of online extortion have discovered, paying the bad guys is not worth it. As Bob Covello recently pointed out, if hackers ask for too much money no-one is likely to pay them, and that’s why they’re more likely to ask for a few hundred pounds worth of Bitcoin.”]
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