Ransomware attacks on the House of Representatives have increased so much through third-party email providers that Yahoo Mail has been blocked until further notice.

The House’s Technology Service Desk sent an email, obtained by Gizmodo, to House of Representatives staff members. The email, sent on April 30, warned that “the House Information Security Office has seen an increase of attacks on the House Network using third party, web-based mail applications such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail, etc. The attacks are focused on putting ‘ransomware’ on users’ computers.”

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here