Unfortunately, bad actors in the ransomware space don't care about what types of organizations they attack... Government entities often have extremely limited budgets for things like cybersecurity and IT services leaving them vulnerable to very skilled adversaries. This attack, happening alongside the largest global IT outage recorded, placed a significant amount of stress on IT and cybersecurity resources, likely making response even more difficult than usual.
A component of modern ransomware attacks is often the exfiltration of data, meaning there's a good chance that sensitive information will be at risk after this attack.
Protecting against these attacks can be a challenge with such a limited budget, so they must focus on the biggest threats and one of the most cost-effective ways to mitigate them... Teaching employees the importance of not reusing passwords across different systems is also a key comp
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