John Bailey and John Druckenmiller reported this on June 8: The Floyd County school system confirmed on Wednesday reports of a cyberattack, discovered Monday, that resulted in $194,672.76 being stolen from the school system. “Floyd County Schools has been made aware of a spear phishing incident, which is a targeted email attack pretending to be…
Category: Education Sector
District 207 Approves Cybersecurity Contract In Wake Of Attempted Breach
Igor Studenkov reports: Maine Township High School Dist. 207 Board of Education voted unanimously on Monday (June 6) to award a one-year cybersecurity contract to the company that helped the district prevent a security breach a few weeks earlier. The district considered bids from seven vendors. When one of the bidders, Texas-based Crowdstrike, was demonstrating…
This is (One of Many Reasons) Why Districts Get Hit with Ransomware
Bill Fitzgerald writes: Even the smallest of school districts are complicated places. Communicating with stakeholders is hard to do well, and getting the details right is imperative. The details become even more important when school boards and superintendents try and communicate about school safety issues. When communication is done well, is not rushed, and goes…
Leaking Student Data From US Campus App Found — But is It Real?
Another day, another leak. Another leak, another entity claiming it’s not real data. Another leak, another frustrating experience trying to responsibly disclose. According to Safety Detectives, they found exposed data related to an app called Transact Campus: Transact Campus’ technology integrates several payment functions into a single mobile platform to power student purchases at higher…
Pysa shuttered its leak site before it ever dumped data from more than half a dozen schools. Here’s what we know so far.
The education sector has always been a relatively easy target for cybercriminals. One group in particular — Pysa — earned a reputation for its ransomware attacks on schools. Despite analyses and alerts in March, 2021 by threat intel firms and the U.S. government indicating that Pysa was a major threat to the education sector in…
School Board hacked after emails of contractors compromised
Emily Burleigh reports: The Calcasieu Parish School Board has been the victim of a cyber fraud incident. “Because we at the Calcasieu Parish School Board believe in full honesty and transparency, we want to make stakeholders aware of a cyber fraud incident involving our district,” CPSB spokesperson Holly Holland said in a statement to the American…