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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.
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