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New Brunswick NJ, The academic world just faced its biggest digital threat of the decade. As finals week approached, millions of students across North America found themselves locked out of their education. The culprit? ShinyHunters, an elite international cybercrime syndicate that just added the education sector to its long list of high-profile victims.
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Tenafly NJ, Tenafly Public Schools were hit with a ransomware attack that crippled the district’s computer system. Final exams have been canceled for all of the district’s high school students as the Bergen County school district tries to get its system back online with the help of cybersecurity consultants.
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Linden NJ, the FBI confirmed that Darkside ransomware is responsible for the compromise of the Colonial Pipeline networks. In an odd twist DarkSide, the group behind the ransomware attack that took down Colonial Pipeline, has apologized for the consequences of the hack.
The group clarified that its goal was to make money and not to create problems for society. It promises to vet future victims to avoid social consequences. DarkSide also claimed it isn’t associated with a specific nation-state but it tends to avoid targeting systems running in certain Russian and Eastern European languages. Colonial Pipeline aims to restore service by the end of the week.
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Ridgewood NJ, Russian hacking group REvil is targeting Apple in a $50 million ransomware attack. The group stole engineering and manufacturing schematics from Quanta, a company that manufactures products for Apple. It has already begun posting the stolen data. REvil is hoping that Apple will pay the ransom by May 1. Quanta refused to pay the ransom, saying that the hack did not impact the company’s business operations. The result being a massive data leak implying its a legitimate threat .
