Back to the education sector where this time it’s two Texas schools in the same district who were affected.Over to the United States now, this time it’s the North Miami Beach Police Department who reported they had become a victim of ransomware.Deliveries across Australia were stranded in the next reported attack as logistics company Toll Group confirmed they had to shut down their systems because of ransomware.Next up, another school to report as Scotland’s Dundee and Angus College was hit with what they described as a cyber-bomb which took down their entire IT system.The first attack of the new month was reported in Baton Rouge Louisiana on Feb 3 rd when ITI Technical College became the victim of a cyberattack via a phishing email sent at the end of January.Here’s a roundup of the ransomware attacks we have been tracking. Lastly we head to the City of Racine in Wisconsin where a ransomware attack caused the city’s website, email, voicemail, and payments systems to be knocked offline.įebruary saw the same amount of reported attacks with almost 60% of attacks occurring in the education and public sector verticals.Despite early thoughts that the outages were a technical issue it was later confirmed they suffered a ransomware attack. Up next is Oregon, where all of the computer systems for Tillamook County went down.Back the United States now where Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), a 40-year-old electronics company and a well-known US government contractor suffered a ransomware infection.A ransom of €10M was requested by the cybercriminals. France is next as the Bouygues construction company was paralysed by a major cyberattack affecting the entire computer network and shutting down all of the company’s servers.The group used two Russian-speaking underground forums on the Dark Web to threaten to publish 50GB of sensitive data, including blueprints and employees’ and clients’ details, unless Gedia agreed to pay a ransom. Back to Europe now where the hackers responsible for the Travelex shut down target the German car parts company Gedia.
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Next we are back to Florida where 600 computers were taken offline after a cyberattack at Volusia County Public Library.Next up is a synagogue in New Jersey who fell victim to a cyberattack and a ransom demand of around $500K.Moving on to the small town of Colonie in New York where cybercriminals hacked into the computer system and demanded $400K in Bitcoin cryptocurrency to unlock it.While the school was working with the FBI regarding the attack, they let parents and students know that they couldn’t access any grades so report cards would be delayed. Back to the education sector again as the Panama-Buena Vista School District in California experienced a ransomware attack that caused a technology and phone outage at multiple schools.Next we move on to Florida where patients of a medical practice in Miramar reported that they received ransom demands from a cybercriminal threatening to release their private medical data unless a ransom was paid.Another US city and another school, as this time students in the Pittsburgh Unified School District of Pennsylvania were left without internet access after a ransomware attack disabled the district’s network systems during the festive break.To the United States next where Richmond Community Schools in Michigan had to postpone opening after the Christmas break when hackers demanded $10K in Bitcoin to restore access to the server.Next we head to the Middle East where Oman’s largest insurance company was hit by a ransomware attack causing data loss but no publicized monetary loss.The ransom was rumoured to be the sum of $6M. Hackers celebrated the last New Year’s Eve of the decade with an attack on Travelex, taking down it’s websites across 30 countries and causing chaos for foreign exchange transactions worldwide during the month of January.Starting with January, let’s look back at some of the attacks that occurred around the globe.
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