Rebecca Cashman and Patricia Del Rio report on how the Wolcott, Connecticut school district is responding to the second cyberattack it has experienced in the past few months. The district declined to pay any ransom, and it’s not clear whether the two attacks are by the same hacker(s) or not. Read more on WFSB.
Category: Education Sector
Mobile County Public Schools impacted by ransomware attack on vendor, back online now
You may have been a bit confused by the rapidly changing status involving Mobile County Public Schools in Alabama, who were impacted by a ransomware attack. Their site was down for about 24 hours, but is back up. The ransomware attack was against their vendor, SchoolinSITES.
Ransomware attack against Ava School District fails, prompts strengthening of network
KY3 in Missouri reports: Ransom notes mysteriously shot out of printers in the Ava School District, demanding money to get information back. The district shut down its network as a precaution. Ava’s Superintendent doesn’t think a Ransomeware attack that hit early Thursday morning got any important data. Read more on KY3. It’s interesting to read…
Schumer calls for federal response to school cyberattacks
Justin Murphy reports: Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., called on Congress and the FBI on Wednesday to help school districts and other local government bodies threatened by increasingly common and sophisticated cyberattacks. The issue has put school districts across New York on guard, particularly after the Syracuse City School District was hit with ransomware this year. The district paid a $50,000…
Recidivist Hacker Sentenced for Violating Supervised Release Conditions
Cape Cod Today staff report: A New Bedford man was sentenced yesterday for violating conditions of his supervised release by engaging in another cybercrime after being released from federal custody after two prior convictions. Cameron Lacroix, 30, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Mark L. Wolf to 15 months in prison, to be…
Wallenpaupack Area School District computers paralyzed in second ransomware attack
Peter Becker reports: The second major cyber attack this calendar year against the computer systems of Wallenpaupack Area School District, led to a shut down of all 3,000 or so computers district-wide. Referred to as a “ransomware” attack in which the perpetrator sends in a virus to lock down the systems and demands money to…