Water and Lighting Utility Faces Issues Because of Ransomware Infection

  • 30 April 2016
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Interesting comments here especially how only 3 AV's would detect the Ransomware, maybe they should have purchased one which would them to roll the system back like Webroot.
 

US city avoids disaster, utility supply remains operational

Apr 30, 2016 09:39 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) announced last week a cyber-attack that partially shut down some of its services following what looks like an unconfirmed ransomware incident.
 
The infection took place on Monday, April 25, at around 5 AM after a BWL employee had opened a file attachment received via email. The virus encrypted the employee's files but also spread to other computers on the same network.
 
BWL officials say their antivirus solution was not able to pick up the threat. In a statement to the Lansing State Journal, officials admitted the virus was "brand spanking new," and that, during their subsequent investigation, they found out that only three antivirus solutions were able to detect it. Officials later added that they also upgraded their antivirus solution to one of these three.
 
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Just another one in a long litany of such attacks this year...it is really surprising that with all of what is happening, and the fact that it is being widely publicised, that other potential 'targets' are not taking steps to 'insulate' themselves from this sort of malware. :(
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Just another one in a long litany of such attacks this year...it is really surprising that with all of what is happening, and the fact that it is being widely publicised, that other potential 'targets' are not taking steps to 'insulate' themselves from this sort of malware. :(
I would be curious to know which 3 AV solutions detected it and which they chose though.
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Agreed...that would be very interesting to know. ;)

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