🇺🇸 A cyber intrusion of Suffolk County (suffolkcountyny.gov) government systems had the « hallmarks of ransomware » but officials have not yet received monetary demands #usa #government #ransomware #city #databreach #digital #technologies #outage #online #services #systems #disruption #threats #numérique #careers #planning #management #networks #community #department #panne #informatique
Suffolk County will be one of 36 U.S local governments to be impacted so far this year.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/suffolk-cyberattack-ransom-bellone-qj1hja29
🇺🇸 Suffolk County is about four (4) months behind in issuing tens of millions of dollars in property tax refunds.
https://longisland.news12.com/suffolks-tax-refund-system-backed-up-by-around-4-months-partly-due-to
After penetrating the Suffolk County clerk's system in December 2021, hackers appeared to spend months nosing through its nooks & crannies
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/nyregion/suffolk-county-cyberattack.html
Suffolk County's cybersecurity firm, Palo Alto, has completed their #forensic analysis into how hackers bypassed their firewall and infiltrated government systems
The full #report states that cybercriminals accessed the clerk, county, health & sheriff domains, compromising 139 systems and encrypting 71 systems with ransomware.
