According to sources, City of Amarillo (a Government organization in Texas) was hit with a cyber attack. It was first reported on 2022-03-13.
Source 1 | 2022-03-13
“• “A cyberattack on the City of Amarillo was successfully thwarted over the weekend.” • “According to the City, there is no evidence of a data breach at this time and no ransomware was deployed.” • “"Due to the City of Amarillo's identification and quick containment actions, it appears that they prevented any destructive code from executing," said Kevin Walsh, Senior Consultant Secureworks. "Without these actions, this could have been a far more devastating situation,." • “As a precaution, the City's e-mail system will be offline until the IT department determines it was not affected by the attempted cyberattack.” “
Source 2 | 2022-03-16
“• “The City of Amarillo's systems are fully back up and running after they identified what they called unusual behaviors on an IT system.” • “On Friday at noon there were signs of a potential attack. By 2 p.m. all external connections were shut down as a precaution.” • “Gagnon explained this was a ‘zero-day attack,’ unlike an email with a virus infected link, it’s a newer more sophisticated approach.” • “…the minute we have an incident like this I report it to the Criminal Justice Information System. I brought an outside incident team that’s not city of Amarillo staff” “
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