Ransomware attack: Alaska town returns to typewriters for a week

That’s what government workers did in tow municipalities in Alaska last week on 24 July 2018.

“Without computers and files, Borough employees acted resourcefully. They re-enlisted typewriters from closets and wrote by hand receipts and lists of library book patrons and landfill fees at some of the 73 different buildings.” – said the director of public affairs at Mat-Su.

The attack was so sophisticated that employees had to do their day to day job using typewriters and hand written receipts.

Some reports advise that this attack was with a intent of a zero-day attack that utilized new exploits. The targetted infrastracture was everything from servers and email exchanges to computer systems and telephones.

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