The Los Angeles County Superior Court docket system was hit by a ransomware assault Friday morning, prompting officers to disable community techniques by means of a minimum of the weekend.
The assault doesn’t seem associated to the defective CrowdStrike replace that sparked a international know-how outage Friday, officers mentioned in an announcement.
CrowdStrike is a significant provider of software program meant to guard companies from ransomware, by which an attacker encrypts and blocks entry to pc techniques or knowledge till some type of fee is made. Regulation enforcement is investigating the assault on the court docket and to this point there’s “no proof of court docket [users’] knowledge being compromised,” the assertion mentioned.
After discovering the assault, the court docket’s community techniques have been disabled to attenuate the injury, in accordance with the assertion. These techniques are anticipated to be offline by means of a minimum of the weekend to deal with the difficulty.
Officers didn’t specify which “community techniques” had been disabled. Nevertheless, as of Friday night, a number of pages on the court docket’s web site weren’t working and returned error messages, together with the jury portal.
