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En las noticias: KSTP ABC News entrevista a Michael Cobb sobre el ciberataque de St. Paul y los retos de la recuperación
En las noticias: KSTP ABC News entrevista a Michael Cobb sobre el ciberataque de St. Paul y los retos de la recuperación
In August 2025, the City of St. Paul suffered a significant cyberattack that disrupted municipal services and triggered a state of emergency. In a televised interview with KSTP News, Michael Cobb, Director of Engineering and Chief Information Security Officer at DriveSavers, shares expert commentary on the scope of the attack and the challenges of data recovery.
Cobb discusses the growing number of municipal ransomware incidents, the difficulty of recovering from encrypted or deleted data, and the technical complexity of restoring entire city networks.
Watch the full segment to hear Cobb’s expert perspective on the cyberattack’s impact and why recovery is never simple.
Michael Cobb, Director of Engineering and CISO at DriveSavers (Cobb):
We are absolutely seeing a very huge uptick of cities being hit with these type of attacks.
Richard Reef, KSTP News:
Michael Cobb’s company, DriveSavers, recovers data after cyber attacks. He says the hardest task is to not only make sure servers are secure, but also to recover data from hundreds of city computers.
Cobb:
That’s a, a very difficult thing, especially if the threat actor was able to either delete the data that’s necessary to run the function or encrypt it.

