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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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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Connecticut Courts Riddled with Ransomware After being corrupted with ransomware, Connecticut court systems had no option but to take their systems offline. Court staff members first realized there was a problem in their systems on March 9, 2018. The exact ransomware variant that infected the systems is unknown. However, after investigation, court officials do not
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Alabama City Falls Victim An unknown ransomware variant attacked an Alabama city, taking their operations offline. The City of Leeds systems were riddled with ransomware over a week ago. Computers within the fire and police departments were impacted. Although, officials stated emergency response was not impacted. The city was demanded to make a payment of
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Update 4/6/2018: Six weeks after the ransomware variant, SamSam infiltrated Colorado DOT’s networks, systems are still not running at full efficiency. The remediation cost have totaled approximately $1.5 million, and networks are only working at 80%. The costs included in the estimate only include the overtime costs and other unexpected costs. Update 3/6/2018: This just keeps getting
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Ransomware Strikes North Carolina County Offices Another ransomware attack has been executed. This time, the victim was North Carolina’s Davidson County. Officials noticed an issue with their systems on February 16, 2018. The malicious infection took down several county office networks, forcing employees to go back to pen and paper. It remains unclear if the
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Sacramento Bee Ransomware Infection Exposes Millions An unknown ransomware variant infected the Sacramento Bee database on towards the end of January. The ransomware infection was able to execute because the newspaper’s firewall did not turn back on after updates took place. It is expected systems were vulnerable for two weeks; although, it remains unclear how
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