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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Cyber Criminals Stoop to New Low – Threatening Student Safety The FBI and Department of Education have issued a warning to educational institutions regarding the cyber threat, ransomware. Ransomware is a malicious software that infects systems and locks important files. After locking these files, the hackers demand a payment to unlock them. In some instances,
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South Carolina Library Added to List of Ransomware Victims Just yesterday we reported on the third South Carolina school district that has been infected with ransomware in the past year. Now, Spartanburg County Library has disclosed they too have been hit with ransomware. Due to the ransomware infection, checking out books has been proven difficult.
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Ransomware Attacks Third South Carolina School District Over the last year, three different ransomware attacks have successfully infected three different South Carolina school districts. The first reports of Horry County Schools being riddled with ransomware came in February of 2016. That school district gained approval to pay the $8,500 ransom demand in order to restore
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Ransomware Infection May Cost Allscripts Big Money… Allscripts, a company that provides electronic record systems for medical facilities was hit with a ransomware infection earlier this month. The ransomware attack impacted several medical locations throughout the U.S., leaving them without access to their electronic data. The severity of the impact for each facility remains unknown.
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Ransomware Leaves Ohio Clinic Inoperable We’ve heard of ransomware infections infecting hospitals and clinics. We’ve also heard that at times patients have been sent away because some of the more sophisticated procedures could not be done. Now, a medical clinic in northeastern Ohio has been completely shut down due to a ransomware attack. Pulmonary Physicians
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New “Get Rich Quick” Scheme Leads to Ransomware A new scam is luring people into downloading ransomware. The scheme is targeting crypto-wallet users, and could also be spreading through phishing attacks. The scam is encouraging users to download a new form of crypto-currency that is bound to make them buku bucks. The fake crypto-currency, SpriteCoin,
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Six Weeks After Ransomware Attack, Idaho School District Still Struggling… Jerome School District, located in Jerome, Idaho, is still struggling to get their systems fully functional, six weeks after a ransomware infection. After successfully encrypting the district’s files on December 11, 2017, the cyber criminals demanded bitcoin to decrypt, or unlock, the files. At that
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Ransomware Attack Targets New Mexico City Office On January 3, 2018, the ransomware variant, SamSam, infected the city offices of Farmington, New Mexico. The ransomware infection successfully encrypted multiple areas of the city office including the electronic bill pay and records processing. Although, the infection did not impact utility operations and the city office has
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