A cybersecurity system that has disabled employee emails, VoIP phones, and the county website is being looked into by Indian River County officials.
The network outage, which was found on October 2020 at night, has since had an impact on the network capabilities in several county offices.
Multiple servers are impacted and three systems have been unavailable for more than 24 hours, according to the organisation; these could be symptoms of ransomware.
Election systems are not affected by this incident, according to county officials, who also stated that current public safety operations are going as planned.
Source: https://news.yahoo.com/cybersecurity-incident-causes-indian-river-040531726.html
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/ircbocc
"id": "ind1108523",
"linkid": "ircbocc",
"type": "Ransomware",
"date": "10/2020",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Public Sector',
'location': 'Indian River County',
'name': 'Indian River County',
'type': 'Government'}],
'date_detected': 'October 2020',
'description': 'A cybersecurity system that has disabled employee emails, '
'VoIP phones, and the county website is being looked into by '
'Indian River County officials. The network outage, which was '
'found on October 2020 at night, has since had an impact on '
'the network capabilities in several county offices. Multiple '
'servers are impacted and three systems have been unavailable '
'for more than 24 hours, according to the organisation; these '
'could be symptoms of ransomware. Election systems are not '
'affected by this incident, according to county officials, who '
'also stated that current public safety operations are going '
'as planned.',
'impact': {'downtime': 'more than 24 hours',
'operational_impact': 'network capabilities in several county '
'offices',
'systems_affected': ['employee emails',
'VoIP phones',
'county website',
'multiple servers']},
'title': 'Indian River County Network Outage',
'type': 'Ransomware'}