The accounting department of Crawford County, located in Robinson, Illinois, recently was victimized by cyber crime.\u00a0 Hackers infected the county’s servers and encrypted all of the account receivables, account payables and payroll data.\u00a0 After consulting with their auditing team<\/a>, county officials chose to issue payroll manually.\u00a0 However, the accuracy of these checks is still unclear.\u00a0 Typically, all of the calculations for payroll are done through the encrypted systems.<\/p>\n The exact ransomware variant that infected Crawford County remains unknown.\u00a0 It is also unclear how the county plans to remediate its systems.\u00a0 To date, there have been no mentions of backup files or servers, nor have county officials confirmed the ransom demands.<\/p>\n This is not the first municipality to report a ransomware attack.\u00a0 In the last week alone, multiple attacks have been reported throughout the Midwest and East Coast.\u00a0 Including Onslow Water and Sewer Authority, the City of Muscatine, Indiana’s National Guard, the City of West Haven, and most recently, Crawford County.<\/p>\n For a list of ransomware attacks that have already taken place in 2018, you may click here<\/a>. We have also created a map, see below, of the ransomware attacks that have taken place in the U.S.Other Ransomware Attacks<\/h4>\n
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