"Georgia’s Largest County Is Still Repairing Damage From January Cyberattack"

Georgia’s largest county, Fulton County, is still repairing the damage inflicted on its government a month ago by hackers who shut down office phone lines, left clerks unable to issue vehicle registrations or marriage licenses, and threatened to publicly release sensitive data they claimed to have stolen unless officials paid the ransom.  The ransomware syndicate LockBit took credit for the cyberattack in late January that temporarily crippled government services in Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta.  The hackers’ deadline passed last Thursday, less than two weeks after law enforcement agencies in Europe and the U.S. announced they had disrupted LockBit’s operations, seized the group’s systems, and arrested two people overseas.  Soon after the takedown, LockBit resurfaced on the dark web and renewed its threat against Fulton County.  But no stolen data was released after the deadline, and county officials refused to pay.

SecurityWeek reports: "Georgia’s Largest County Is Still Repairing Damage From January Cyberattack"