James Carr reports: One of the country’s largest academy trusts has become the latest victim of a targeted ransomware cyber attack – with laptops used by pupils and email systems disabled. Harris Federation, which runs 49 schools, detected the attack on Saturday, and has been working through the weekend to resolve the issues. A Schools Week investigation last…
Category: Malware
Ransomware admin is refunding victims their ransom payments
Ionut Ilascu reports: After recently announcing the end of the operation, the administrator of Ziggy ransomware is now stating that they will also give the money back. It appears that this is a planned move since the admin shared the “good news” a little over a week ago, but gave no details. Read more on…
Ca: Hackers demand ransom from Town of Didsbury in cyber attack
Dan Singleton reports: The Town of Didsbury was the victim of a cyber-attack on Sunday, March 21 when fraudsters encrypted the town’s information systems with ransomware and made a ransom demand to decrypt the system, town officials said Friday. Mayor Rhonda Hunter declined to say whether the Town of Didsbury has paid a ransom to…
More details emerged about FatFace ransomware attack
An attack on FatFace was already attracting media attention for the firm’s attempt to get people to keep their breach notification email confidential. Naturally, it got more attention that way. But on March 27, SuspectFile reported that the breach, first disclosed at the end of March, was more serious than what had been revealed previously….
Bedfordshire: Cyber-attack destroys school pupils’ coursework
BBC reports: Pupils’ coursework has been destroyed in a “significant” cyber-attack on a school. Redborne Upper School and Community College in Bedfordshire said the attack took place on Wednesday. Although no data was taken, the school’s servers were left unreadable resulting in “the loss of a significant amount of data”, it added. Read more on…
Ca: Simon Fraser University sued over recent data breach
Jaymee Salisi reports: Following SFU’s data breach on February 3, 2021, BC law firm Slater Vecchio LLP filed a class action lawsuit against the university on behalf of the 200,000 individuals affected by the incident. The lawsuit argues that SFU students should have a higher safety standard for the storage of their personal information. In Slater Vecchio LLP’s lawsuit notice,…