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…
Category: Malware
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…
ME: Possible computer data breach at EMCC could affect thousands of students, staff
WAGM reports: Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor is dealing with a possible data security breach that could impact thousands of students and staff up to 20 years ago. School officials are notifying 42,000 current and former students, as well as employees, that certain computers on campus were recently infected with malware and may have…