The ransomware being used in an attack on the City of Baltimore’s IT systems was identified as “Robbinhood.”
At a news conference on Wednesday, Chief Information Officer Frank Johnson said the attack was discovered early Tuesday, shutting down the “majority” of the city’s servers, though emergency services remained available.
The FBI is investigating, and “has confirmed that it’s a fairly new variant that is quite aggressive,” Johnson said. “Technicians right now are trying to remediate the root cause,” as well as what’s been impacted and affected.
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