CITIES HIJACKED BY TOOL STOLEN FROM THE N.S.A.

The article reports that the ransomware attack that caused the shutdown of the networks of the city government of Baltimore, Maryland has used the EternalBlue, part of a set of tools developed for the National Security Agency (NSA). Topics covered amount of ransom that Baltimore officials have refused to pay, features of the ransomware attack, how EternalBlue has been used by hackers around the world and overview of other malware attacks against U.S. local governments.