Minnesota calls in Cyber National Guard Unit after St. Paul 'digital attack' \ stacker news ~security

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/minnesota-calls-national-guard-after-st-paul-slammed-by-digital-attack-2025-07-29/

July 29 (Reuters) - Minnesota has called in the National Guard after the city of St. Paul was slammed by what its mayor described as a "deliberate, coordinated, digital attack" carried out by sophisticated hackers.

The office of Governor Tim Walz said in a statement that he was deploying the Guard, which has a cyber protection component, because the attack had "exceeded the city's response capacity."

In a press conference earlier on Tuesday, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said the city had "initiated a full shut down of our information systems as a defensive measure to contain the threat," triggering WiFi outages across city buildings, disruptions to city libraries, and suspension of network resources.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 30 Jul

I am interested to read about this more, as more details are revealed

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 30 Jul

Crippling hacks that knock out city services are a hallmark of ransomware incidents, in which hackers deploy data-scrambling software to paralyze victim networks until a ransom payment is made.

Usually it’s some sort of bitcrypt, use to deal with this a lot in back when I did IT. Not a fun day when that spread through a network.