Ransomware attacker demanded $5.3 million from city of New Bedford

NEW BEDFORD — The city of New Bedford was hit with a ransomware attack demanding $5.3 million in July, Mayor Jon Mitchell said Wednesday.After keeping quiet for months about the true nature of the attack that disabled many city computers, Mitchell acknowledged that a variant of the Ryuk virus affected 158 city computers. It encrypted data stored on servers and workstations, blocking access to that information.The city previously blamed an unspecified virus.The [...]