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	"plain_text": "City of Liege, Belgium hit by ransomware\r\nBy Catalin Cimpanu\r\nPublished: 2022-12-17 · Archived: 2026-04-05 14:00:57 UTC\r\nLiege, the third biggest city in Belgium, has suffered today a ransomware attack that has disrupted the\r\nmunicipality's IT network and online services.\r\nFollowing the attack, most of the city's civil status and population services are down, Liege officials said on\r\na status page today.\r\nAppointments for town halls, birth registration, wedding, and burial services have been canceled due to workers'\r\ninability to access the city's IT network.\r\nOnline forms for event permits and paid parking are also down, officials said.\r\n\"Other services are also affected,\" Liege officials added, promising to provide a more in-depth list later in the day\r\nto prevent locals from showing up at city coutners unnecessarily.\r\nWhile officials only described the incident as a \"computer attack,\" two Belgian radio and TV stations reported that\r\nthe attack was the work of the Ryuk ransomware gang.\r\nThe attack against the Liege municipality is not a rare occurrence. In fact, local city networks are often targeted by\r\nransomware gangs because many cannot afford top-of-the-line security nor new IT gear, often running severely\r\noutdated servers and workstations with a small IT staff.\r\nWhile Liege is a pretty big city, it is not the only major municipality that has fell victim to a ransomware attack in\r\nrecent years.\r\nThe most recent attack hit Tulsa, in the US, but prior to that, ransomware gangs also hit big US metro centers like\r\nHackney (London), Atlanta, Baltimore, Denver, Knoxville, and New Orleans.\r\nThe Liege ransomware attack also comes on the day that news leaked that the EU is considering creating a joint\r\nrapid response force to aid EU countries and cities to deal with cyber-attacks.\r\nhttps://therecord.media/city-of-liege-belgium-hit-by-ransomware/\r\nPage 1 of 2\n\nCatalin Cimpanu\r\nis a cybersecurity reporter who previously worked at ZDNet and Bleeping Computer, where he became a well-known name in the industry for his constant scoops on new vulnerabilities, cyberattacks, and law enforcement\r\nactions against hackers.\r\nSource: https://therecord.media/city-of-liege-belgium-hit-by-ransomware/\r\nhttps://therecord.media/city-of-liege-belgium-hit-by-ransomware/\r\nPage 2 of 2",
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