Another Ransomware Attack Targets Oregon Public School Roseburg Public Schools in Oregon is the most recent educational institution feeling the wrath of cyber criminals. On Monday, May 7, 2018, school officials identified an undisclosed ransomware variant on their networks. The malicious attack took down the school’s email systems, website, and software. IT professionals are working […]
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85,000 Patients Notified of Security Breach The Center of Orthopedic Specialists, a California medical facility, suffered a ransomware infection in February of 2018. Now months later, the medical facility is informing patients of a potential security breach as a result of the ransomware infection. Approximately 85,000 patient files may have been compromised, potentially releasing information including: Social
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Ransomware Infects Georgia’s Dawson County Dawson County computers were infected with a malicious attack on Monday, April 23, 2018. The attack was first identified by the tax assessor’s office. Shortly after the ransomware was confirmed, servers and endpoints were taken offline in an attempt to mitigate the infection. IT professionals were able to work through
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Rockport, Massachusetts Riddle with Ransomware Ransomware took down networks at the Rockport Town Office, located in Massachusetts, on April 13, 2018. Since, IT professionals have been working overtime to get computer systems working at full capacity and to restore city data. Fortunately, they were able to recover data through the backup systems; however, all information
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IBM Security Announces Breaches Drop, While Ransomware Skyrockets On Monday, IBM Security announced results from its 2018 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index which found the number of records breached dropped nearly 25%, while ransomware continues to skyrocket. Ransomware, malicious software that encrypts files or entire networks, demands a ransom payment to decrypt the files. Unfortunately,
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Michigan Cracks Down on Cyber Crime Lawmakers have addressed the ransomware threat in the past, by making it illegal to execute the form of malware on devices. However, they’ve recently taken it a step further. In Michigan, it is now illegal to be in possession of a ransomware variant. This means, even if it has
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Ransomware Takes Baltimore’s Emergency Systems Offline On March 28, 2018 Baltimore city officials confirmed the city’s emergency systems had been infected with an unknown ransomware variant. The infection was found on Sunday, March 25th, which led the IT department to taking systems offline. For approximately 17 hours, Baltimore’s electronic emergency systems were unavailable. Therefore, employees
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Update, 4/2/2018: The City of Atlanta continues to struggle getting their systems back online. Since turning on computers last week, they have found a plethora of data that has been left inaccessible. The city has not paid the $51,000 ransom demand, and remains uncertain if they will be able to recover the remaining data that
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New York Medical Facility Riddled with Ransomware Finger Lakes Health, of Geneva, New York was infected with an unknown ransomware variant on March 18, 2018. Therefore, the medical facility’s systems were left completely encrypted, with an unknown third-party demanding a ransom payment. The amount of the payment has not been disclosed, and it remains unclear
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Ransomware Takes Georgia’s City of Hinesville Offline An unknown ransomware variant took down the City of Hinesville in late February. Initially, the ransomware attack was reported as an IT incident; however, city officials are now reporting their systems were indeed infected with ransomware on February 20th. The exact ransomware variant is unknown, and the ransom
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