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City of Pensacola hit by ransomware attack.

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  • Famine

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    Ransomware typically encrypts all the data making it unusable. What they do is set a price, in this case $1M for the key to decrypt the files. Because of the high level of encryption a brute force method of trying keys in not practical and the alternative is to restore data from prior backups - which is time consuming and depending on how current the backups will result in lost data's.
     
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