A few days ago, IT systems and services at Leicester City Council stopped working. Councillors were not told the cause. (Link: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/systems-outage-leicester-city-council-9151322)
At 7pm this Friday, they tweeted it is a "cyber incident". Services are still offline.
Confirmed it is a ransomware group.
My take would be the ransomware operator has made a mistake here as Leicester council have about 0% chance of being able to afford to pay - a year ago they described their existing budget as having a "near impossible cliff edge" to central government and they haven't received additional funding since - so the operator shoved the group's head into a beehive, the ransomware group should probably help them out.
Leicester City Council say a UK government minister is pressuring them not to disclose what happened (it’s ransomware). https://therecord.media/leicester-uk-cyberattack-local-council
Leicester City Council remains offline, from my automated monitoring, from their ransomware incident. A person in the council tells me they’ve been told not to admit it is ransomware by central government.
The BBC reports they expect to return mid week. My take - very unlikely they will get back online mid week.
Leicester City Council ransomware incident rumbles on, having civil society impacts.
UK gov pretending it isn’t ransomware still.
@GossiTheDog What a nightmare for somebody.