The Top Cyberattacks of January 2020

This report summarizes several January 2020 cyber incidents: ransomware infections affecting the Tampa Bay Times and Tillamook County (disrupting systems and service delivery), a Trend Micro OfficeScan zero-day exploited to access Mitsubishi Electric, an Iranian-linked defacement of U.S. federal library sites, and a distributed denial-of-service attack targeting Greenville Water; each case includes operational impacts and recommended mitigations such as backups, SOC monitoring, timely patching, multi-factor authentication, and employee security awareness.