StateScoop reports that U.S. schools have been receiving inadequate cybersecurity funding from states.
Even though 70% of educational technology directors, state superintendents, and senior state officials across the U.S. have noted cyberattacks against their state or local education agency during the past 12 months, 57% said that their cybersecurity efforts were given very little financial support by their states, compared with only 6% who said that state school cybersecurity funding was adequate, according to State Educational Technology Directors Association and Whiteboard Advisors' State EdTech Trends Report.
"Cybersecurity and privacy were consistently identified as high priorities for technology in the survey responses, yet respondents also indicated that resource allocations often don't align with the level of priority," said researchers.
The findings come after the FBI, MS-ISAC, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned about mounting Vice Society ransomware attacks against K-12 organizations, as well as the Los Angeles Unified School District's confirmation of a ransomware attack earlier this week.
SiliconAngle reports that mounting security alert fatigue has prompted Torq to introduce its new HyperSOC system based on its Hyperautomation Platform using artificial intelligence to enable security operation center response automation, management, and monitoring in a bid to bolster the investigation and remediation of cybersecurity threats.
Moldovan botnet operator Alexander Lefterov, also known as Alipatime, Alipako, and Uptime, has been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for his involvement in widespread attacks against U.S.-based computers, BleepingComputer reports.
CyberScoop reports that over 100 Ukrainian local government and police documents uploaded to VirusTotal in February were discovered to have been infected with the OfflRouter malware, which dates back to 2015 and could only spread through already compromised files and removable media devices.