{"id":11021,"date":"2019-04-26T12:15:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T12:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/was_cleveland_airport_ransomware_attack_preventable.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:29:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:29:02","slug":"was-cleveland-airport-ransomware-attack-preventable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/was-cleveland-airport-ransomware-attack-preventable.html","title":{"rendered":"Was Cleveland Airport Ransomware Attack Preventable?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport<\/a> is battling a ransomware attack that knocked out some displays and disabled email and other systems according to reports.<\/p>\n

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Rumors immediately circulated<\/a> that hackers had gotten into payroll records. On the heels of this incident, the city of Cleveland is trying to ensure its other departments are prepared in case of a future cyber breach.<\/p>\n

In a statement released on Wednesday evening, the city of Cleveland says the “technical issues are impacting a small number of airport systems.” They stress that there is no impact to the airport’s security and operations systems.<\/p>\n

The system controlling the city-owned airport\u2019s electronic boards providing flight and baggage information continued to malfunction<\/a> for a fourth day, Thursday.<\/p>\n

Three sources with knowledge of the problem told cleveland.com<\/a> earlier this week that hackers had installed malware in the system. City Hall had declined to confirm that the system was hacked, instead referring to the problem as \u201ctechnical issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cleveland FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson said in a statement Tuesday that agents are aware of the issues at the airport, which emerged Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FBI was contacted<\/a> by city and airport officials, a collaborative assessment is being conducted to determine the cause of the technical issues,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cAdditional information is not available at this time and will be released when appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

She directed additional inquiries to the city of Cleveland. Mayor Frank Jackson\u2019s office put out a statement Tuesday that said airport officials continue to work on restoring the flight and baggage information systems and the airport\u2019s email system.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s release made no mention of the FBI\u2019s involvement in looking into what happened.<\/p>\n

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The majority of such infections come from user error. Quite often from a user who clicks an email link.<\/p>\n

Antivirus is not enough.<\/p>\n

Users must also be trained continuously via repeated and regular phishing simulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If they are not, a company, airport, government agency or any organization is continuously vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Protect your company with phishing training<\/a> or willingly risk becoming a victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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