Megan Radogna reports on a ransomware attack on a school district — a ransomware attack in July that this site sadly seems to have overlooked. The Moses Lake School District, which encompasses 16 schools, was hit by a ransomware attack launched from a phishing email that originated from an IP address in Moscow. The district refused…
Category: Malware
Has IIT Madras been hit by ransomware that is holding all their research data hostage?
Parvathi Benu Students at IIT Madras, the top-ranked institution in the country by the NIRF, are petrified that they have lost all their data, after a suspected ransomware attack on the institute’s internet and Command and Control servers since Wednesday. Even though the institute says that it has a back-up for everything on the email…
MS: FBI investigating after Jackson Public Schools computer system hacked
Jacob Gallant reports: Jackson Public Schools is dealing with a network interaction after a recent cyber attack. School officials said in a statement that its information technology team, along with outside cyber-professionals, performed a full assessment of its computer system. They say student and employee information has not been compromised. Read more on WLBT. The…
More details emerge on one of Maze Team’s victims
On January 21 and January 31, this site reported on a ransomware attack by Maze Team on CrossroadsNet or Crossroads Technologies. It wasn’t even clear who was attacked, as one entity had no web site, and none of the Crossroads Technologies entities responded to multiple inquiries by this site about the breach. Then on January…
City of Wayne, Nebraska hit by ransomware attack
NCN reports: A northeast Nebraska city is investigating an apparent hack into their systems. The City of Wayne announced Wednesday that they were the victims of a ransomware attack. In a Facebook post, city officials said all of their internet-based communications are down. Read more on 1011Now.com
Major Japanese Defense Contractors Admit to Data Breach Incidents Dating Back to Over Four Years Ago
Scott Ikeda reports: Two more major Japanese defense contractors admitted to experiencing a data breach in recent years, bringing to a close a story that began in January when Japanese defense minister Taro Kono revealed that several partner organizations had been attacked. But though the full outline of the damage is now visible, many questions…