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Reports of government ransomware attacks are down, but looks are deceiving

July 29, 2022

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A report earlier this month from the Ransomware Task Force, a group of roughly 60 tech-industry and public-sector cybersecurity experts who’ve been studying the titular threat, found that while organizations worldwide continue to suffer attacks, the clip of incidents affecting local government and health organizations in the United States looks to have slowed.

The task force, citing data compiled by Recorded Future intelligence analyst Allan Liska, said there had been 64 documented attacks on local governments, schools and hospitals so far in 2022, compared with about 150 over the same period a year prior. Yet incidents continue to be financially costly and operationally devastating — the City of Quincy, Illinois, in May paid $500,000 for a decryption key and is still sorting through damage to its services.

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