In August and September 2020, 57% of ransomware incidents reported to MS-ISAC were against K–12 schools, up from 28% in January through July 2020. Cyber actors likely view schools as targets of opportunity, and these types of attacks are expected to continue through the 2020/2021 academic year. These issues will be particularly challenging for K–12 schools that face resource limitations; therefore, educational leadership, information technology personnel, and security personnel will need to balance this risk when determining their cybersecurity investments, according to an alert issued by the FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC.
Ryuk, Maze, Nefilim, AKO, and Sodinokibi/REvil are the most common forms of ransomware being used in the K–12 attacks this year.
Dec 10, 2020
A pilot program testing automated cybersecurity data feeds to state and local governments drastically reduced the time it took them to deploy defensive operations, according to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), which led the trial.
The goals of the one-year Indicators of Compromise (IOC) automation pilot, announced in July, were to integrate end-to-end cyber defense responses so that the time from sensing to acting was reduced from days to a few minutes and to define consistent procedures for information sharing across state and local governments.
The pilot participants included the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as well as the state governments of Louisiana, Massachusetts, Texas and Arizona, Arizona’s Maricopa County and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).
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