Andrew Mendler reports: The Town of Midland’s computer systems were hacked over the long weekend. In the early morning hours of Sept. 1, the town became the victim of a cyber-attack in which the town’s network was illegally accessed and infected with ransomware. [..] In late April, Wasaga Beach had their computer systems hacked and…
Category: Malware
Coweta County, Ga., Largely Restores Servers Following Ransomware Attack
Raisa Habersham of AJC reports: Coweta County, Ga., has restored most of its computer servers, nearly two weeks after hackers demanded $341,000 in bitcoins in the latest ransomware attack to impact metro Atlanta government. The county’s information technology servers were compromised about 6:30 a.m. Aug. 19, limiting access to tags, courts and other services, officials…
Ca: Hackers hit West Vancouver’s server
Brent Richter reports: West Vancouver is warning thousands of its residents after discovering hackers installed malicious software on the district server used to store personal information collected through its website. District staff first noticed something suspicious on July 31. A forensic search found malware installed on its server used for collecting information from online “webforms.”…
Cloquet School District Again Targeted by a Ransomware Attack
Spamfighter reports: Cloquet school district has been hit by a ransomware attack second time in the past three years. The ransomware is a virulent computer malware, which attacks by spreading from one computer to another and locking up the access to the network servers. The ransomware also encrypts the documents and then demands ransom for…
Mexicans served with Dark Tequila in spyware spree
Charlie Osborne reports: The citizens of Mexico are being served with a rather unpalatable form of tequila — a dark version — and the name given to a threat group which has been covertly stealing valuable data from its victims for years. On Tuesday, researchers from Kaspersky Lab revealed the existence of Dark Tequila, a…
How K–12 School Districts Can Best Prepare for Ransomware Recovery
Karen Scarfone reports: No matter how many layers of security school districts put in place to stop ransomware, it’s inevitable that, at some point, an endpoint will be infected. Since January 2016, there have been 355 cybersecurity-related incidents against K–12 schools, including ransomware attacks, according to the K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center. In 2016, 60 percent…