Yet another American school has been hit with a devastating cyberattack.
after several school districts were hit with ransomware attacks. The attacks keep on coming. The latest victim: Northshore School District in Washington.Visit the NSD website and you'll be greeted by a warning about a server outage."This weekend, the District servers were the subject of a significant cyber attack," it states. Phone and voicemail access has been impacted, as well as point of sale systems, andthat student, family, or staff data has been compromised.
No ransom demands have been made by the attacker yet, but there's little doubt that their motivation is financial. A quick look at the NSD annual report makes it clear enough why it would have been targeted. Much of the business around projects like those is conducted via email these days. Every relationship with a contractor creates another opportunity for attackers, who often zero in on their main target from trusted outside email addresses.
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