Dragoon Security Group

After a chaotic summer of coordinated ransomware attacks against municipal governments, resulting in disruption of critical services to citizens, some refreshing news from Rhode Island of a small town whose hard work and infrastructure investments have paid off.

East Greenwich suffered an attack last week but was able to activate their Incident Response Plan and limit the infection propagation. Despite 75% of the town’s servers being impacted by the attack, the IT department was able to quickly notify all town departments to disconnect computers and systems from the internal network and begin recovery operations through the data backup solution implemented last year.

We applaud the technology team in East Greenwich for their preparation efforts and hope other municipal governments follow their lead.

Town Restores Computer Network After Ransomware Attack A Rhode Island town is restoring access to parts of its municipal computer network following a ransomware attack.

Texas Local Governments Under Siege

At least 20 local governments have been struck with coordinated ransomware attacks.

State officials have stood up the Emergency Operations Center to coordinate response efforts of InfoSec teams and identify additional communities impacted by this campaign.

This is the largest attack seen against a specific geographical area, however this summer many cities and counties in the southern US have found themselves the victims of such extortion attacks.

Everything truly is bigger in The Lone Star State.