SamSam Ransomware Campaigns Highly Active in 2018 and Heavily Targets Organizations

From gbhackers.com

SamSam ransomware campaigns

SamSam ransomware campaigns continue to launch attacks against various organizations sectors including Government, Healthcare and Industrial control sectors.

Unlike other Ransomware, SamSam trying to exploiting the critical vulnerabilities in the target organization network instead of using wide spreading Spam approach to compromise the target that used by other ransomware families.

The SamSam ransomware group behind the Atlanta Police Department attack that demands the ransom of US$6,800 to unlock every computer.

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