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Councils to be increasingly targeted by ransomware threats

Sooraj Shah

12 November 2015 • 2 min read

Councils 'will quickly pay ransoms to restore their critical operations', claims McAfee Labs

Councils are going to be increasingly targeted by ransomware threats, according to a report by cyber security firm McAfee Labs. The firm said, in its 2016 Threats Predictions report, that ransom...

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