Security News > 2020 > December > Forget Snow Day: Baltimore's 115,000+ public school kids get Ransomware Day, must check Win PCs for infection

Students in Baltimore, Maryland, were on Sunday warned against connecting their Windows PCs to the county's public school IT system after it was hit by ransomware.

Baltimore County Public Schools has revealed few details about the malware infection, and only confirmed it was a "Victim of a [ransomware] attack that caused systemic interruption to network information systems."

The latest instruction for staff and students is to follow these steps to determine whether or not their county-issued Windows PCs were infected by the malware, and if so, go into a designated high school to pick up a replacement machine.

The ransomware has hit the county at a difficult time when schools have repeatedly closed and reopened amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"These people who would infect school systems with ransomware, especially in a time of COVID, when school systems and teachers are under enough pressure as it is, should really have their own level of hell devoted to them," he said.

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