{"id":91137,"date":"2019-05-22T15:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T22:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/cybercriminals-are-holding-an-entire-us-city-hostage"},"modified":"2019-05-22T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:30:05","slug":"cybercriminals-are-holding-an-entire-us-city-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/cybercriminals-are-holding-an-entire-us-city-hostage","title":{"rendered":"Cybercriminals Are Holding an Entire US City Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cybercriminals-are-holding-an-entire-us-city-hostage2.jpg\"><\/a><br \/> The city of Baltimore is under attack, but not by someone armed with guns or bombs.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, cybercriminals used <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ransomware-funding-terrorism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ransomware<\/a> known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/05\/21\/725118702\/ransomware-cyberattacks-on-baltimore-put-city-services-offline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RobinHood<\/a> to seize control of about 10,000 of the city\u2019s computers, saying they won\u2019t relinquish access unless Baltimore hands over about $100,000 worth of bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore is refusing the meet the ransom demand. However, it also isn\u2019t equipped to crack the ransomware, meaning it\u2019s been forced to go largely offline \u2014 another <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/atlanta-hacking-ransomware-cybersecurity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disturbing example<\/a> of modern government\u2019s inability to keep up with the evolving threat of cybercrime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ransomware-baltimore-hostage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ransomware-baltimore-hostage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ransomware-baltimore-hostage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ransomware-baltimore-hostage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ransomware-baltimore-hostage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/cybercriminals-are-holding-an-entire-us-city-hostage\">Continue reading \u201cCybercriminals Are Holding an Entire US City Hostage\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Baltimore is under attack, but not by someone armed with guns or bombs. Two weeks ago, cybercriminals used ransomware known as RobinHood to seize control of about 10,000 of the city\u2019s computers, saying they won\u2019t relinquish access unless Baltimore hands over about $100,000 worth of bitcoin. Baltimore is refusing the meet the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91174,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91137\/revisions\/91174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}