Leon Stafford reports: Henry County’s computer system remained down early Monday, five days after malware is suspected to have been planted in the south metro community’s network. Websites for various departments such as state court, tax assessor and board of commissioners continued Monday to be inaccessible. Public safety such as police and fire were not…
Category: Malware
PA: Ransomware Attack Hits Local Libraries
Henry Ibinson reports: The Butler County Federated Library System continues to work on their online system following a ransomware attack that occurred last week. According to the Butler Area Public Library’s Facebook page, several of the county’s libraries began to experience technical difficulties last Wednesday (July 17th). Read more on Butler Radio.
QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack
Brian Krebs writes: Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access their accounting data for the past three days. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.
SC: Hackers attack Midlands Tech
Cyber criminals hit Midlands Technical College computers Wednesday. They inserted a virus that could have affected the entire college system.. Officials shut down the system to prevent the virus from being spread. For several hours, administrators, faculty and students could not use email or online classes, Midlands Tech spokesperson Stefanie Goebeler told The State newspaper….
Update: Indiana county just paid hackers $132k in ransom – and they’re not alone
There’s a follow-up to the report that LaPorte, Indiana was hit by malware more than one week ago. The county has reportedly paid $132k to the attackers. FoxNews reports: In a written statement, the president of the county’s Board of Commissioners said, “This particular virus, Ryuk, that was used by the bad actors in this…
Tourism ministry’s servers breached
Matthew Moxey reports from Nassau, Bahamas: The Ministry of Tourism is the latest government entity to fall victim to a security breach, according to Minister of Tourism Dionisio D’Aguilar, who told Eyewitness News Online that his ministry’s information systems were infected with a virus Tuesday. The virus impacted a host of digital files. Read more on…