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DOJ Indicts Hackers for Ransomware That Crippled Atlanta

Nov 29, 20186 min
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The port of San Diego. The city of Atlanta. Kansas Heart Hospital. Those are just a few of the more than 200 municipalities, universities, hospitals, and other targets that have fallen victim to SamSam, a pernicious strain of ransomware that has spent the past three years rampaging throughout the US. On Wednesday, the Justice Department indicted two Iranian men allegedly behind the attacks.

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