The City of Englewood, a metropolitan area of the Denver-Aurora Colorado area, was hit with ransomware<\/a> on October 3rd.\u00a0 Once officials determined the systems had been compromised, they were taken offline in an attempt to prevent the ransomware from spreading.\u00a0 The infection impacted all of the city’s internal networks.\u00a0 After 48 hours, the systems were back online and fully functional.\u00a0 The ransomware variant has not been disclosed, nor was the ransom demand.\u00a0 It remains unclear how the IT department was able to get everything restored within two days.<\/p>\n If additional details are released, we will update you accordingly.<\/p>\n To see a full list of ransomware attacks that have taken place in 2017, you can click here<\/a>. We have also created a ransomware map, see below, of the ransomware attacks that have taken place in the U.S.Other Ransomware Attacks<\/h4>\n
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