An unknown ransomware variant infected the City of Muscatine, located in Iowa, on October 10th.\u00a0 The cyber attack impacted multiple servers and since has been isolated.\u00a0 The local IT staff and federal officials are working to remediate city systems.\u00a0 It remains unclear if the city plans to pay the undisclosed ransom demands.<\/p>\n
Another ransomware attack, which has not been proven to be related to the City of Muscatine, hit the City of West Haven in Connecticut.\u00a0 The ransomware variant has not been disclosed, but it did infect 23 city servers.\u00a0 Even though the off-site backup systems were unharmed, city officials approved a $2,000 ransom payment.\u00a0 Once the transaction was processed, the hackers provided the tools to unlock the city’s systems.\u00a0 IT staff continues to work toward getting systems back to 100% capacity.<\/p>\n
Ransomware also riddled a non-military server from Indiana’s National Guard.\u00a0 According to officials,\u00a0the infected server contained information on military and civilian personnel.\u00a0 The number of people impacted is unknown, but they will be notified in a timely manner.\u00a0\u00a0Indiana National Guard said in a press release<\/a>,<\/p>\n \u201cRegardless of whether or not the server contents were compromised, our chief concern is for the welfare of any affected personnel, which is why we will notify employees who may have had their personal information compromised and are proactively taking actions to ensure a similar event does not occur again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For a list of ransomware attacks that have already taken place in 2018, you may click here<\/a>. We have also created a map, see below, of the ransomware attacks that have taken place in the U.S.Other Ransomware Attacks<\/h4>\n
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