Fresh off dealing with chaos caused by last month's ransomware attack, the city of Baltimore has a new problem to deal with -- the $18 million in damages that came with it. . On May 7th, the city's government computer systems were infected with aggressive ransomware called RobbinHood which encrypted hard drive data to prevent access. Each computer affected by the attack demanded a payment of 13 bitcoin (over $75,000) for users to regain access to their files. Gizmodo reports that the FBI specifically advised the city against paying the ransom as it would not not reduce cybersecurity costs. The link for this article located at Engadget is no longer available. . The city of Baltimore is dealing with $18 million worth of financial repercussions stemming from a ransomware attack that compromised its governmental infrastructure in May.. Baltimore Cyber Attack, Ransomware Costs, Data Encryption, Government Security. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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