Madison Cybersecurity News Today

MADISON, Wis. -- UW-Madison officials said there is no evidence that a cyber attack caused an outage that left the campus without wi-fi for long stretches of time over the

MADISON, Wis. — When a ransomware attack in October locked Janesville School District students, staff and families out of various online programs, parent Neanda Annen said her initial reaction was to laugh, guessing that a student had attempted to keep their grades hidden. But after the district notified families that they were in contact with the FBI and Department of...

The incident in Janesville is just one of many recent attacks on a nationwide scale. As of August, at least 58 U.S. school districts and educational organizations had been hit by ransomware attacks, including 830 individual schools this year, according to Emsisoft threat analyst Brett Callow.