Hackers Take Down IT Systems in Lowell, Massachusetts

The city of Lowell in the US state of Massachusetts has been hit by a cyber attack impacting the municipality's IT systems. "We realized Monday morning around 3 to 5 am that there was a breach," said City Manager Tom Golden. The city’s Management Information Systems Department (MIS) determined the best course of action was to isolate affected systems for troubleshooting, leaving some servers, networks, phones, and other systems inaccessible. The incident bears the signs of a typical ransomwar