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Report: No 'Eternal Blue' Exploit Found in Baltimore City Ransomware
Perp still at large.
Baltimore ransomware attack crimped home sales for the month of May

It took two weeks for city and real estate officials to develop a manual workaround to check for liens and record deeds after the May 7 attack crippled city systems, temporarily bottling up home sales.

Baltimore won't be able to send water bills again this month as ransomware recovery continues

As the city continues to recover from the attack, Goldstein said officials expect that 95 percent of workers will have access to their computers, electronic documents and emails by the end of the week. The city's information technology teams are restoring the shared serves that house workers' documents and make sure they are secure.

A computer virus has thrown Philadelphia's court system into chaos

Since May 21st, a virus has shut down Philadelphia's online court system, bringing network access to a standstill. ... But there's little other information available: officials said that saying any more "could jeopardize the remediation process," but that they've contracted a cyber security firm to look into the problem.

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The damage is particularly severe in housing law. When a mortgaging bank tries to repossess a house (known as foreclosure), a defendant may file for a postponement before it's sold, asking to delay the process while they gather information to fight the decision. But amid the outage, those postponement filings are in danger of being lost in the chaos -- meaning that Philadelphia's cybersecurity problems could cause someone to lose their home unnecessarily.

2020 Census online is going to be great. Once the tubes are secured from Russian meddling and interference. 45% response rate. u betcha.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

"thousands of attacks worldwide"
Florida city pays $600,000 ransom to save computer records

The Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously this week to pay the hackers' demands, believing the Palm Beach suburb had no choice if it wanted to retrieve its records, which the hackers encrypted. The council already voted to spend almost $1 million on new computers and hardware after hackers captured the city's system three weeks ago.

[X] opportunity -- phishing CRM employees

The hackers apparently got into the city's system when an employee clicked on an email link that allowed them to upload malware.

[ ] means -- not NSA Eternal Blue or Stuxnet, ebola, or 60K other "malware" monitored by MSFT
[X] motive

"We are relying on their (the consultants') advice," she said. The hackers demanded payment in the cryptocurrency bitcoin. While it is possible to trace bitcoins as they are spent, the owners of the accounts aren't necessarily known, making it a favored payment method in ransomware attacks.

[ ] suspects -- excluding Russian and Chinese spies

The U.S. government indicted two Iranians last year for allegedly unleashing more than 200 ransomware attacks, including against the cities of Atlanta and Newark, New Jersey. ... The federal government last year also accused a North Korean programmer of committing the "WannaCry" attack that infected government, bank, factory and hospital computers in 150 countries.

online 2020 Census is going to be GREAT! Once the citizen question is eliminated from "the system" and the tubes are secured. 45% response rate. Plus a paper trail of accurate ENUMERATION. u betcha.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.