Alleged ransomware attack on a New Jersey school district

Source: TAPinto Westfield A ransomware attack may be the cause of the Westfield Public Schools district-wide network outage, which began on the first day of school and continued for a third day on Sep.

3. The outage has shut down internet and Wi-Fi in the schools, including clocks and access to instructional tools, as well as district and school phone lines and the student information system, which includes parent portals.

Ransomware.live, a threat intelligence platform that tracks ransomware groups and their victims worldwide, lists Westfield Public Schools as a victim of a ransomware-as-a-service operation called Incransom. The New Jersey school district has 5,900 students in K-12, with 900 faculty and staff members across a high school, two intermediate, six elementary schools, and an early childhood learning center. Full Story