On January 9, 2019, Salisbury Police officials noticed something wasn’t right with their computer systems when they were unable to access data from the day before.\u00a0 It didn’t take long for the IT department to realize the cyber attack, was indeed ransomware and took systems offline to avoid further infection.\u00a0 Fortunately, the department kept backup files updated and believed they would be able to restore encrypted files using these backups.<\/p>\n
The ransom demands remain unknown, as does the ransomware variant.<\/p>\n
For a list of ransomware attacks that have already taken place in 2019, 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.
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