Ransomware persists even as high-profile attacks have slowed

Trzaska poses for a photo on the Lewis & Clark Community College campus in Godfrey. The small Illinois school cancelled classes for days after a ransomware attack last month that knocked critical computer systems offline. — AP

WASHINGTON: In the months since US President Joe Biden warned Russia’s Vladimir Putin that he needed to crack down on ransomware gangs in his country, there hasn’t been a massive attack like the one last May that resulted in gasoline shortages. But that’s small comfort to Ken Trzaska.

Trzaska is president of Lewis & Clark Community College, a small Illinois school that cancelled classes for days after a ransomware attack last month that knocked critical computer systems offline.