In May 2021, one of the largest refined fuel pipelines in the United States, the Colonial Pipeline, experienced a cyberattack that shut down fuel delivery from the Gulf coast to the East coast. The U.S. government including CISA at the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI strongly recommended against paying the ransom demanded by […]
In April 2021, hackers broke into the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) computers, locked up the files and demanded $4 million in ransom. The group responsible is known as Babuk. They started leaking data just before the MPD confirmed it had suffered an attack. The leaks included financial and marriage histories of officers, social […]
On February 5, 2021, a water treatment plant employee in Oldsmar, Florida noticed his mouse cursor moving strangely on his computer screen. At first, he thought it was nothing because they use remote-access software. Later, the mouse moved again to adjust the allowable level of sodium hydroxide (a disinfectant used to clean the water). Although […]
