More than six hundred American towns, cities, and counties were held hostage by ransomware attacks between 2019 and 2020. Cybercriminals were not just hitting big cities like Albany and New Orleans, but smaller counties in swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. In Texas, a new battleground, twenty-three towns were hit simultaneously. In Georgia, the tally of victims was stunning: The city of Atlanta. The state’s Department of Public Safety. State and local court systems. A major hospital. A county government. A police department for a city of thirty thousand people. In each case,
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