FBI PIN warning advises companies to avoid paying these extortionists a ransom. They warn that ransom payments only encourage future ransomware attacks.
Hackers used DoppelPaymer ransomware in the cyberattacks on the systems of Foxconn, the cities of Florence, Alabama and Torrance, California, and Newcastle University in the United Kingom. There have been attacks in Mexico, France, and a German hospital that resulted in the death of a patient.
These type of ransomware attacks are expected to continue in 2021.
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