Funding Challenges and Ransomware in the Education Sector

Kerri Shafer-Page from Arctic Wolf joins us to discuss their work on "Lost in the Fog: A New Ransomware Threat." Starting in early May, Arctic Wolf's Incident Response team investigated Fog ransomware attacks on US education and recreation sectors, where attackers exploited compromised VPN credentials to access systems, disable Windows Defender, encrypt files, and delete backups.

Despite the uniformity in ransomware payloads and ransom notes, the organizational structure of the responsible groups remains unknown.

The research can be found here:

• Lost in the Fog: A New Ransomware Threat

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