Luana Pascu reports:
SamSam ransomware is back and the Colorado Department of Transportation is its most recent victim. More than 2,000 agency computers had to be shut down on Feb 21 to prevent the ransomware from spreading across the entire infrastructure.
According to CBS local news, the critical systems used to manage road traffic and alerts were not affected. The attackers encrypted some files and requested bitcoin in exchange for the decryption key.
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