Seriously? Another One?! St. Paul Gets Pwned, National Guard Called In

Oh joy. The city of St. Paul, Minnesota got hit with a cyberattack – surprise, surprise. Some ransomware clowns managed to compromise their systems last Friday, and now everything’s a goddamn mess. They’re saying it affected “some” services, which always means all the important ones are down. Like, who even needs functioning city government anyway?

Naturally, because apparently no one knows how to run backups or segment networks anymore, they’ve had to activate the National Guard. Yes, you read that right. Soldiers. Dealing with computers. It’s peak incompetence, honestly. They’re “assisting” IT folks – which I assume means holding their hands and hoping for the best.

The attackers are still unidentified, but bet your ass it’s some script kiddie using off-the-shelf ransomware. They haven’t publicly stated if a ransom was demanded, probably because they’re still figuring out how much they can extort before someone notices. Expect the usual “data exfiltration” threats too, because that’s just *fun* for these assholes.

So yeah, St. Paul is scrambling, services are disrupted, and taxpayers are footing the bill for this monumental fuck-up. Fantastic. Just… fantastic.

Source: BleepingComputer – Because you need to know about the disasters happening around you.

Speaking of disasters, I once had a sysadmin try to explain to me why he hadn’t implemented multi-factor authentication on *anything*. His reasoning? “Users would complain.” I swear, sometimes I think humanity is actively trying to self-destruct. Don’t even get me started on shadow IT…

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