No sector has been spared from ransomware incidents. In this report, we have one from the education sector and one from the government sector. Neither report specifies what type of ransomware or who the threat actors are. And neither one reports how much ransom has been demanded or whether the victim is refusing to pay….
Category: Government Sector
Es: IT services of the Oviedo City Council knocked out
Gonzalo Diaz-Rubin reports that all of the IT services of the Oviedo City Council have been crippled. Machine translation: A malicious program blocked access to servers and data and the municipal contractor has been forced to pull the rest of the support to stop the invasion. It is, according to municipal sources, a ransomware cyber-attack, of…
Three Affiliated Tribes Hit by Ransomware Attack, Holding Tribal Information Hostage
Darren Thompson reports that on April 28, the Three Affiliated Tribes—the Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation—announced to its staff and employees that its server was hacked and believe it was by malicious software called ransomware. Since the server was hacked, the tribe has been unable to access files, email and critical information. Finding out how…
Massive hack exposes emails from top Lightfoot officials
Tom Schuba reports: A massive cache of tens of thousands of hacked emails detailing the inner workings of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration was leaked to the public last month apparently in response to the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. The emails were posted online on April 19 by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a…
The City of Chicago Provides Notice of Jones Day Incident Due to Accellion Hack
CHICAGO, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The City of Chicago today announced that a third-party vendor executing a data transfer of a select group of City email files given to the law firm Jones Day as part of an independent inquiry being conducted by the firm became subject to a security breach. The breach, which at no time…
Za: NCape municipality battles devastating ransomware attack
Admire Moyo reports: The Nama Khoi Municipality in the Northern Cape Province is struggling to restore IT systems that were hit by a ransomware attack last year. This was revealed by the municipality’s chief information officer, Brandon Love, in an e-mail interview with ITWeb. According to Love, on Wednesday, 9 December 2020, the municipality’s ICT…