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As LA Unified Battles Ransomware, CISA Warns About Back-to-School Attacks

September 6, 2022

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As the school year kicks off across the country, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a warning to districts that threat actor group Vice Society is targeting their systems.

The notice comes just hours after the Los Angeles Unified School District confirmed it was the target of a successful ransomware attack over the weekend. The K-12 school district, the second-largest in the US, has not yet recovered its systems fully, with its main student portal login page out of service, according to local parents speaking to Dark Reading. A district voicemail instructed parents to reset their students’ passwords in person or via calling a telephone line, which was seeing hold times of greater than half an hour this morning, parents reported.

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