Ransomware Reports

Surveillance Cameras Infected With Ransomware Days before Trump’s inauguration, the Metropolitan Police Department discovered 123 surveillance cameras were inoperable due to two separate ransomware infections.  The infections were found on January 12th and by January 15th the systems had been restored.  Investigators resolved the issues by identifying and disconnecting the infected devices.  All of the

Three Strikes–You’re Out! Racing Pulse, a popular horse racing website that is based out of Bangalore, India, was forced offline on January 17, 2017 after suffering its third ransomware attack in a week.  The last, and most critical, encrypted their entire site. Dharma ransomware, the variant that took down Racing Pulse, encrypted all of the website’s data.  The

Update 1/27/2017: After two days, the St. Louis City Public Library technical staff was able to fix the impacted computers.  The system hard drives were wiped completely and restored with available back-ups.  The St. Louis City Public Library is currently unable to offer free computer use to the community due to a ransomware attack that

Cyber criminals have hit a new low, proving they don’t care who their victims are as long as it may lead to a large payout.  According to Network World, hackers breached Indiana Cancer Services’ systems on January 10, 2017.  They then encrypted a server, followed by a ransom demand of $43,000 to restore this server.

Kanawha County Schools Struggles To Regain Access Another county school was victimized by ransomware this week.  Kanawha County Schools, located in Charleston, West Virginia was hit with ransomware on January 11, 2017.  As of today, January 13, 2017, the school continues to work on regaining access to their encrypted files. Officials are not reporting the

2016 was deemed the year of ransomware.  However, experts do not see the attacks slowing down in 2017.  Throughout the year we will continue to update this list as ransomware attacks become public. January Los Angeles Community College District – California – Amount paid: $28,000 USD Kanawha County Schools – West Virginia – Did not