On the 28th of April Three Affiliated Tribes – the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara nation – informed their workers that they have been hacked with their server and believed it was ransomware. The community has not accessed files, email, and sensitive information since the server was hacked.
Ransomware is a sort of malware that, as per the Homeland Security Department, attempts to publish information or restrict access until a ransom is paid. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, reports that 4,000 ransomware attacks are initiated daily, with an attack is conducted every 40 seconds.
A document with details that the intrusion was linked with ransomware was sent to all Three Affiliate Tribes employees on April 28th. The one thing that it does, is changing file locations and file names of the document, stated Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara CEO Scott Satermo. “Share this text, call, or use other methods as we have no way of sending an email notification at this time.”
“Ransomware is running rampant in governments throughout the world,” said National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Director of Policy & Research Meredith Ward in an email to Native News Online. “Many local governments have been hit very hard.”
NASCIO is a 501c(3)(h) non-profit framework that has its main advocacy and policy goal, as objectives and has a provision of insight and advice on the consequences of legislation, policies, and proposals relating to technology. On 14 October 2020, 30 Member States identified financial fraud as being a major cause of infringement over the past year compared with 10 states in 2018, states a report issued by NASCIO. The main causes of infringements still lie in external sources: malicious (68%), external-source web ..
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