{"id":33842,"date":"2020-03-12T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/fresh-virus-misery-for-illinois-public-health-agency-taken-down-by-web-ransomware-great-timing-scumbags\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:57:10","slug":"fresh-virus-misery-for-illinois-public-health-agency-taken-down-by-web-ransomware-great-timing-scumbags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/fresh-virus-misery-for-illinois-public-health-agency-taken-down-by-web-ransomware-great-timing-scumbags\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh virus misery for Illinois: Public health agency taken down by&#8230; web ransomware. Great timing, scumbags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the world tackles the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, ransomware creeps have knocked offline a public health agency&#8217;s website that served nearly a quarter of a million people in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The Champaign Urbana Public Health District (CHUPD) in Illinois, covering 210,000 folks, including the state&#8217;s biggest university, said today it has had to set up an alternate website as it deals with a ransomware infection that took down its primary site. &#8220;We are working to get our website up and running,&#8221; the district said in a post to a Facebook page that has now become its preferred outlet.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the district also confirmed an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2020\/03\/illinois-ransomware-coronavirus\/\">earlier report<\/a> from Mother Jones that the outage, which began Tuesday morning, was caused by a ransomware infection rather than a crush of traffic. &#8220;CUPHD can confirm that our system was attacked by a ransomware virus [called] Netwalker,&#8221; <em>El Reg<\/em> was told.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as MailTo, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonblack.com\/2020\/02\/07\/threat-analysis-unit-tau-threat-intelligence-notification-mailto-netwalker-ransomware\/\">Netwalker ransomware<\/a> emerged earlier this year in targeted attacks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2017\/08\/16\/ship_shutterstock.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"ship\"><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"Staff found out after seeing their own jobs advertised in India\">Maersk prepares to lay off the Maidenhead staffers who rescued it from NotPetya super-pwnage<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/03\/03\/maersk_redundancies_maidenhead_notpetya_rescuers\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>At the time of writing, the district&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/champcoprepares.com\/\">alternate website<\/a> was operational and displaying some basic contact information about the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The organization&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CUPHD\/\">Facebook page<\/a> remains active with advice on how to prevent and report further infection.<\/p>\n<p>The Urbana-Champaign area in particular will be affected by the outbreak as the area is home to the University of Illinois, which brings in students from all over. The school, currently on its Spring Break, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/news.illinois.edu\/view\/6367\/807187\">said yesterday<\/a> that when classes resume, they will do so online.<\/p>\n<p>The horrible timing of the ransomware attack \u2013 right as people turn to state officials for advice and information on a biological virus outbreak \u2013 is likely a coincidence, as ransomware infections have for months been spreading on various local government networks.<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware masterminds in particular have found local governments to be easy prey due low IT staffing and a lack of basic security protections. Places as sparsely populated as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/11\/04\/ransomware_freezes_nunavut_canada\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nunavut, Canada<\/a> and as large as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/03\/27\/baltimore_911_problems_blamed_on_hacking_attack\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baltimore, Maryland<\/a> have had to deal with ransomware hijackings that shut down critical city services. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p class=\"wptl btm\"><span>Sponsored:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/tl\/1915\/-8381\/client-story-gategroup?td=wptl1915\">Webcast: Why you need managed detection and response<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/03\/12\/ransomware_illinois_health\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not like anyone is looking for medical advice right now As the world tackles the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, ransomware creeps have knocked offline a public health agency&#8217;s website that served nearly a quarter of a million people in the US.\u2026 READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fresh virus misery for Illinois: Public health agency taken down by... web ransomware. 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