Rhysida threatening to release data on dark web tomorrow.
The Rhysida ransomware gang is demanding £1.2 million from a school.
Saying if the payment is not made, it will sell personal data stolen from its IT systems on the dark web, the attack affected schools across the north west of England.
The attackers infected the IT network with ransomware, leaving 10 of schools with limited access to computers, laptops, printers and even photocopiers.
Mark Robertson, CRO at Acumen Cyber, said: “What we are seeing here is the real ruthlessness of ransomware criminals. The criminals are not backing down and it’s now only a matter of days before sensitive school data will be published all over the dark web.
“These schools now face the extensive and costly process of rebuilding systems. Given ten schools have been impacted, the costs of this could exceed the ransom demand, so this should be a lesson for all organisations.”
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
