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$500 zero-day ransomware attack takes council offline for nearly a week – ZDNet

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$ 500 zero-day ransomware attack takes council offline for nearly a week
ZDNet
The attack represents the largest of its kind against Lincolnshire Council, which claims it has been the victim of zero-day malware, an attack previously unknown to security experts. Once the malware was discovered, the council closed down its entire …
Lincolnshire County Council hit by £1m malware demandBBC News
Lincolnshire council IT ransomware flingers asked for … £350The Register
Lincolnshire IT systems back onstreamUKAuthority.com (press release) (blog)
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Massachusetts police department pays $500 CryptoLocker ransom

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A Massachusetts police department paid $ 500 to free up town files that had been encrypted by CryptoLocker, the ransomware that locks down hard drives until the owners pay up.

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Police in Tewksbury, Mass., came up with the ransom after four or five days when they realized they could not break the encryption and needed the attackers to send them the private key in order to access the data.

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