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City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools. Early on the morning of Wednesday, May 03, 2023, the group started executing the ransomware on the City of Dallas. The Dallas City Council has approved a budget of $8.5

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2020 – 623 million records breached

IT Governance

Preschool services provider Educational Enrichment Systems discloses cyber attack (unknown). Columbus County Schools gives update after systems wiped by cyber attack (5,673). The US Defence Information Systems Administration discloses 2019 cyber attack (unknown).