{"id":31609,"date":"2019-05-17T03:40:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T07:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=31609"},"modified":"2019-05-17T03:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T07:40:27","slug":"robbinhood-ransomware-takes-down-baltimore-city-government-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/17\/robbinhood-ransomware-takes-down-baltimore-city-government-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRobbinHood\u201d ransomware takes down Baltimore city government networks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


By SEAN GALLAGHER<\/a> – Systems at a number of Baltimore\u2019s city government departments were taken offline on May 7 by a ransomware attack. As of 9:00am today, email and other services remain offline. Police, fire, and emergency response systems have not been affected by the attack, but nearly every other department of the city government has been affected in some way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Calls to the city\u2019s Office of Information Technology are being answered by a recording stating, \u201cWe are aware that systems are currently down. We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.\u201dView image on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lester Davis, a spokesperson for Baltimore\u2019s Mayor\u2019s office, told the Baltimore Sun\u2019s Ian Duncan<\/a> that the attack was similar to one that hit Greenville, North Carolina, in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baltimore Chief Information Officer Frank Johnson confirmed in a press conference today that the malware was “the very aggressive\u00a0RobbinHood<\/a>\u00a0ransomware<\/strong>” and that the FBI had identified it as a “fairly new variant” of the malware. This new variant of RobbinHood emerged over the past month. Read more: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By SEAN GALLAGHER – Systems at a number of Baltimore\u2019s city government departments were taken offline on May 7 by a ransomware attack. As of 9:00am today, email and other services remain offline. Police, fire, and emergency response systems have not been affected by the attack, but nearly every other department of the city government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[636],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-31609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ransomware","tag-ransomware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t