{"id":1428,"date":"2019-09-09T08:38:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T00:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2019-09-09T08:38:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T00:38:43","slug":"us-city-rejects-5-3-million-ransom-demand-and-restores-encrypted-files-from-backup-secalerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/us-city-rejects-5-3-million-ransom-demand-and-restores-encrypted-files-from-backup-secalerts\/","title":{"rendered":"US City Rejects $5.3 Million Ransom Demand and Restores Encrypted Files from Backup (SecAlerts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the right strategy against ransomware. Backup, backup and backup. At the first sign of any ransomware attack it is important to isolate affected machines immediately and contact a cybersecurity professional to mitigate and prevent further infection.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, rejected a ransom demand of $5.3 million and came back with a counter-offer of $400,000, while restoring encrypted data from backup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/secalerts.co\/article\/us-city-rejects-53-million-ransom-demand-and-restores-encrypted-files-from-backup\/c785f0f3\">US City Rejects $5.3 Million Ransom Demand and Restores Encrypted Files from Backup (SecAlerts)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the right strategy against ransomware. Backup, backup and backup. At the first sign of any ransomware attack it is important to isolate affected machines immediately and contact a cybersecurity professional to mitigate and prevent further infection. The US city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, rejected a ransom demand of $5.3 million and came back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}