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The major ransomware attack against Nevada discovered in late August has been underway since May, The Associated Press reports. Injection of a clandestine backdoor facilitated by a Nevada state employee's accidental download of a malicious system admin tool on May 14 allowed threat actors to create encrypted tunnels, conduct lateral movement, and infiltrate the state's password vault server by August, according to a post-mortem report from the state.

State workers were put on paid administrative leave. Nevada residents couldn’t receive their driver’s licenses. Employers were unable to conduct background checks on new hires. These were all effects of a massive cyberattack in Nevada that took nearly a month to fully restore its services.

State workers were put on paid administrative leave. Nevada residents couldn’t receive their driver’s licenses. Employers were unable to conduct background checks on new hires. These were all effects of a massive cyberattack in Nevada that took nearly a month to fully restore its services.

The “threat actor” who conducted a ransomware attack on the state of Nevada was in the government’s computer systems as early as three months before, the state revealed in an after-action report released Wednesday.

In response to a critical cybersecurity workforce gap across Nevada's major industries, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (���ӽ紫ý) this fall launched a new online Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity, developed jointly by its College of Engineering and Lee Business School. The initiative directly addresses longstanding recruitment challenges, particularly for large local employers such as casinos and the airport.

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More than six weeks have passed since Gov. Joe Lombardo’s office announced the State of Nevada had been breached by cyberattackers and Nevadans are still in the dark about the scope of the damage done, or whether the state has paid a ransom.

���ӽ紫ý cybersecurity director Greg Moody’s phone was blowing up after news broke of a massive August 24 cyberattack on the state of Nevada’s network. When the dust settled, the general consensus among his peers was that it was unprecedented in scope.