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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