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Ohio city hit by new strain of ransomware AvosLocker

(Colin Wood / Scoop News Group) Share Jul 20, 2021 | STATESCOOP Officials in Geneva, Ohio, revealed Monday that the small city was the victim of a breach involving a new and little-known form of ransomware. The disclosure came after files taken from the city’s servers appeared on a leak site operated by a ransomware outfit known as AvosLocker, which began publishing data stolen from its targets in early June. The city population 6,200 has notified federal authorities, including the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. According to the antivirus software company Emsisoft, Geneva’s at least the 45th U.S. local government to be hit with ransomware in 2021.

Biden puts cyber at center of his agenda

© Getty Images A series of disruptive cyberattacks targeting sectors from food to energy to technology has forced President Biden Biden has focused on Russia and China as two nations that present major threats to America’s national and economic security, with cyber issues being prime areas of engagement with those countries as ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure become a constant headache. The president is regularly briefed on cybersecurity, and the topic drew particular focus during Biden’s second Cabinet meeting since taking office, held Tuesday afternoon. ADVERTISEMENT “We’ve been very clear to other nations as to what we expect in terms of their conduct,” Biden told reporters during the meeting.

Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy

With many focusing on the recent Cyber Polygon exercise, less attention has been paid to the World Economic Forum’s real ambitions in cybersecurity – to create a global organization aimed at gutting even the possibility of anonymity online. With the governments of the US, UK and Israel on board, along with some of the world’s most powerful corporations, it is important to pay attention to their endgame, not just the simulations. Amid a series of warnings and simulations in the past year regarding a massive cyber attack that could soon bring down the global financial system, the “information sharing group” of the largest banks and private financial organizations in the United States warned earlier this year that banks “will encounter growing danger” from “converging” nation-state and criminal hackers over the course of 2021 and in the years that follow.

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