‘An attack on the reputation of Palau’: officials question who was really behind ransomware incident

Government employees on the island of Palau came into work on March 14 and booted up their computers like any other day. But when the Windows screens wouldn’t load they called up IT.  They quickly discovered two separate ransom notes: one on a sheet of paper in the printer from the LockBit ransomware gang

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