A ransomware attack hitting Las Cruces Public Schools forced the district to shut down the entire computer system to contain the infection. The district activated the crisis response team and is working to restore critical services. Schools remained open and their activity follows the normal schedule, classes not being disrupted. Experts need to determine how far the infection spread, clean affected systems and restore them, check what data was affected and recover it, preferably from backups. Ransomware attacks were rampant this year, making victims among government, education, and healthcare entities like never before.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-attack-causes-school-district-wide-shutdown/