Mike Savino and Kaitlyn Naples report: Another school system in the state is dealing with a ransomware attack. Watertown’s Superintendent of Schools Rydell Harrison confirmed that staff discovered the attack last Thursday. Because school officials found the hack quickly, Harrison said “at this time there is no indication that our web-based systems that house student…
Category: Malware
Ransomware Hit Case Management Provider TrialWorks. What Happens Next?
Victoria Hudgins reports: Add case management platform TrialWorks to the laundry list of companies and public sector agencies that were struck and paralyzed by a cyberattack this year. And unless lawyers backed up their client files to a separate storage network, they could be frozen out of their data by TrialWorks’ problems. Still, experts say there are ways to mitigate the damage….
Ransomware hits Spanish companies sparking WannaCry panic
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two major Spanish companies have been hit by ransomware today. Both infections occurred on the same day, sparking memories of the WannaCry outbreak. […] The first is Everis, an IT consultancy firm owned by the NTT Data Group. The second is Cadena SER, Spain’s largest radio network, which also admitted to the incident…
NM: Las Cruces Public Schools computers still offline a week after ransomware attack
Jim Parker reports: The computer network for the Las Cruces Public Schools remained offline a week after a ransomware attack by hackers forced the shutdown of the entire system. After originally trying to get existing servers for dozens of schools back online late last week, computer technicians for the district said late Monday they were now working…
The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
<h1>The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois</h1><p><em> by Renee Dudley, ProPublica This story was co-published with the Chicago Sun-Times and The Pantagraph. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. About 10 years ago, Michael…
The First BlueKeep Mass Hacking Is Finally Here—but Don’t Panic
Andy Greenberg reports: When Microsoft revealed last May that millions of Windows devices had a serious hackable flaw known as BlueKeep—one that could enable an automated worm to spread malware from computer to computer—it seemed only a matter of time before someone unleashed a global attack. As predicted, a BlueKeep campaign has finally struck. But so far it’s fallen short…