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Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 7, 2023

Computer servers belonging to the Florida Supreme Court and several universities in the U.S. and Central Europe have been scrambled in a global ransomware outbreak, Reuters reports. Those organizations are among more than 3,800 victims of a fast-spreading digital extortion campaign that locked up thousands of servers in Europe over the weekend. Although this particular extortion campaign was not sophisticated, it drew warnings from national cyber watchdogs in part because of the speed of its spread. The extent of the disruption to the affected organizations, if any, was unclear.