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Online criminals prefer to deal in digital assets, but a side effect of a ransomware attack has seen a French museum robbed of $705,000 in physical gold nuggets. Dozens of French museums fell victim to a ransomware attack in August 2024, and the nation’s Natural History Museum copped another attack in July 2025. The Museum’s …

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    Malware disable alarm and video surveillance systems

    What were the alarm and video surveillance systems even doing connected to the Internet?

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