Councils to be increasingly targeted by ransomware threats
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 ransomware...
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