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#hack

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Today's reminder why NOT to pay criminals' extortion demands to delete data:

PowerSchool paid a hacker’s extortion demand, but now school district clients are being extorted anyway

databreaches.net/2025/05/07/po

NOTE: I subsequently edited my post to clarify that the ransom demand to the state (North Carolina) claimed to be from ShinyHunters. I haven't yet seen any ransom notes to individual districts and I do not know how those were signed or claimed. Stay tuned, I guess....

#PowerSchool #hack #EduSec #EdTech #extortion #databreach

@douglevin @funnymonkey @mkeierleber @brett @euroinfosec @jgreig

databreaches.netPowerSchool paid a hacker’s extortion demand, but now school district clients are being extorted anyway (1) – DataBreaches.Net

Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages

Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection. Malware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell.

⚙️ theregister.com/2025/03/29/mal

The Register · Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruelBy Thomas Claburn

"Cybersecurity vulnerabilities threatened sensitive student data for millions of North Carolina students. Here's how it happened, how victims can protect themselves from identity theft, and why experts say a threat could still exist" www.wral.com/story/a-hack... #cybersec #tech #data #privacy #hack

A hacker’s ransom: Inside the ...

WRAL · A hacker's ransom: Inside the cyberattack that compromised NC student and teacher recordsBy Emily Walkenhorst

Once #DOGE employees (i.e. Musk's henchmen) gained access to the US government IT systems, login attempts with the correct credential and password combination were made from #Russia within 15 min.

At this point we should assume that all US government information systems have been compromised. It would be extremely foolish for any governments to share intelligence with the USA.

#hack
#security

youtube.com/watch?v=M3tBou0l7u