The City of New Orleans has suffered a cybersecurity attack. Mayor LaToya Cantrell has declared a state of emergency.
The City of New Orleans has suffered a cybersecurity attack serious enough for Mayor LaToya Cantrell to declare a state of emergency.
The attack started at 5 a.m. CST on Friday, December 13, according to the City of New Orleans’ emergency preparedness campaign, NOLA Ready, managed by the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. NOLA Readythat"suspicious activity was detected on the City’s network," and as investigations progressed,"activity indicating a cybersecurity incident was detected around 11 am.
Information is still scarce, while both the investigation, involving both State and Federal agencies, and the recovery process continue. It's not known what ransomware malware was used during the attack, and Mayor Cantrell has said that no ransom demand has been made at this point in time.in response to attacks on state and local government targets. This warned that health care organizations, industrial companies, and the transportation sector were also being targeted.
Colin Bastable, CEO of security awareness training company Lucy Security, said that"state and local government is woefully vulnerable to phishing-led hacking, primarily because CISOs focus on technological defenses when they should also be patching their colleagues with regular simulated ransomware attacks and security awareness training."
"The problem with ransomware attacks is that they are not always immediately apparent," Bastable said,"the attack can be undetected for a relatively long time before being triggered." The New Orleans attack could well have been"initiated in parallel with the recent Louisiana attack," according to Bastable.
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