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Rising threats from third-party actors are forcing institutions to play defense to protect student data from ransomware and other attacks.
Ransomware defense requires focusing on business resilience. This means patching issues promptly, improving user education, and deploying multi-factor authentication.
A new group of hackers is encrypting data in virtual machines, leaving ransom notes, and calling it a day.
Researchers went in-depth on an attack by the threat group, which mainly targets US companies in the education and industrial goods sectors, specifically to maximize financial gain.
Last week, the department uncovered a data breach that occurred back in June stemming from what it deems to be a cybersecurity ransomware incident.
The challenges are steep, but school districts can fight back with planning.
Much like a hostage's proof-of-life video, the ransomware gang offers the film as verification that it has the goods, and asks $1 million for the data.
Schools paying higher ransoms and seeing longer closures, according to survey of parents.
Following these basic cybersecurity hygiene policies can help make data more secure and protect colleges and universities from becoming the next ransomware headline. The steps aren't complicated, and they won't break the bank.
After a flat refusal to pay the ransom, Los Angeles Unified School District's stolen data has been dumped on the Dark Web by a ransomware gang.
Weeks after it breached the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Vice Society ransomware group is threatening to leak the stolen data, unless they get paid.
Hours after Los Angeles Unified School District hit with ransomware attack, CISA issued an alert that threat actors are actively targeting the education sector.
The malware packages had names that were common typosquats of a legitimate widely used Python library. One was downloaded hundreds of times.
Dark Reading's digest of the other don't-miss stories of the week, including a new ransomware targeting QNAP gear, and a destructive attack against the College of the Desert that lingers on.