Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
Threat actors never cease to find innovative ways to extort their victims. If only threat actors would use their creativity for good causes.
This week, Bluefield University communicated with its students to be careful of texts sent through the University’s communication system after a ransomware group used the communication system to message the campus about…
The Chicago Public Schools system is in the process of notifying students, families and some current and former employees that their personal information was compromised as a result of a ransomware attack against a technology vendor, Battelle for Kids.
According to the notification letter, parents of students who attended a Chicago public school between…
Another day, another governmental entity hit with a ransomware attack. If you are a resident of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, and you need a marriage license, want to conduct a real estate transaction or register to vote, you might be told there is “no access to systems and no legal filings are possible” due to…
Researchers at Mandiant have recently reported that a new ransomware group calling itself Sabbath appears to be the rebranded group Arcane and “picked up their pace” in November . Arcane has been known to target hospitals and schools.
The researchers identified the group in October after it attacked a Texas school district, held its data…
A new report issued by Sophos, The State of Ransomware in Education 2021, found that the education sector as a whole experienced a higher level of ransomware attacks than any other industry in 2021.
Sophos interviewed 499 IT “decision makers” in 30 countries in January and February of 2021.
The findings in the education…
Security researchers Intezer and IBM X-Force have identified a new ransomware that is seriously vicious. It’s PureLocker—named because it is programmed in PureBasic language, which is apparently unusual.
The scary thing about this ransomware being written in PureBasic programming language is that it can target different platforms and is transferable between different operating systems, including…
We have definitely seen an uptick in the number of ransomware attacks against municipalities around the country. Thus far, the attacks have been against single cities, towns, and court systems, and recently against a Louisiana school system.
The pace and coordination of these attacks have magnified, as evidenced by the coordinated and simultaneous…
Just another ransomware to worry about—Locky, a ransomware that attacks systems with malicious macros has logged almost a half a million sessions in the U.S.
The infection happens through an email that looks to be an invoice and has a Word attachment—the supposed invoice. The Word document attached to the email includes malicious macros that…
Many have predicted that health care providers will continue to be targeted by hackers in the next few years. To illustrate the point, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center has been hit hard by a ransomware attack.
According to the Medical Center, its electronic medical record system has been offline for almost two weeks as a result…
