Security News
Information systems of state courts across Kansas are still offline after they've been disrupted in what the Kansas judicial branch described last Thursday as a "Security incident." Multiple systems crucial to daily court operations across the state have been impacted, including the Kansas Courts' eFiling system used by attorneys to submit case documents, the electronic payments system, and the case management systems employed by district and appellate courts for case processing.
Kwik Trip has been impacted by a wide range of mysterious business disruptions since this weekend that are indicative of a ransomware attack. Kwik Trip is a US chain of over 800 convenience stores and gas stations in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, also operating under the name Kwik Star in Illinois, Iowa, and South Dakota.
"Energy, critical manufacturing, water treatment and nuclear facilities are among the types of critical infrastructure industries under attack in the majority of reported incidents," said Mark Cristiano, commercial director of Global Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation. OT/ICS cybersecurity incidents in the last three years have already exceeded the total number reported between 1991-2000.
The International Joint Commission, a body that manages water rights along the US-Canada border, has confirmed its IT security was targeted, after a ransomware gang claimed it stole 80GB of data from the organization. "The International Joint Commission has experienced a cybersecurity incident, and we are working with relevant organizations to investigate and resolve the situation," a spokesperson for the org told The Register.
"Energy, critical manufacturing, water treatment and nuclear facilities are among the types of critical infrastructure industries under attack in the majority of reported incidents," said Mark Cristiano, commercial director of Global Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation. OT/ICS cybersecurity incidents in the last three years have already exceeded the total number reported between 1991-2000.
MGM Resorts has shut down some of its IT systems following a "Cybersecurity incident" that the casino-and-hotel giant says is currently under investigation. While MGM didn't specify which parts of its IT environment had been hit - or provide any specific details about the snafu - the MGM Resorts website was down as of Monday afternoon, and a concierge at one of the hotels told The Register that all digital operations are being performed manually because the outage had taken down computer systems across the leisure goliath's empire.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released new cybersecurity response plans for federal civilian executive branch agencies.The playbooks standardize the response process and aim to reduce associated risks across the federal government, private and public sectors.