Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 15, 2022) — Teachers have to be IT admins now, too
Summary: Cisco Talos reports that U.S. public schools are increasingly targets of ransomware, citing a major attack on the Los Angeles school district that left teachers unable to enter attendance, losing lesson plans and presentations, and scrapping homework plans. The FBI warned that the Vice Society ransomware group is increasingly targeting U.S. schools, and one elementary school cited has more than 500 students across six grades with only one person serving as overall IT and network administrator for 500-plus laptops and other devices.
What's compelling: The FBI advisory states that school districts with limited cybersecurity capabilities and constrained resources are often the most vulnerable, and a single IT administrator overseeing 500-plus student devices is the staffing reality in at least one school described here.
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