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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident” and, while they have provided no explanation, experts say it has all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack. The disruption has left attorneys unable to search online records and […]
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Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident.”
Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident.”.
Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident” and, while they had not provided an explanation as of Wednesday, experts say it has all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack. “It's really just slowed the whole system down," said Chris Joseph, a Lawrence-based criminal defense attorney. Since 2019, ransomware groups have targeted 18 state, city or municipal court systems, said analyst Allan Liska of the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.