Mountain Rides resolves cybersecurity threat | Transportation
Mountain Rides resolves cybersecurity threat | Transportation
Publish Date: 2026-06-05 19:15:00
Source Domain: www.mtexpress.com
Mountain Rides, the Wood River Valley’s public transportation agency, has resolved an issue caused by a malicious pop-up box that showed up on its website this week and threatened website visitors with a computer virus.
Mountain Rides spokeswoman Andrea Hernandez told the Express in a Friday phone call that she spotted the issue Wednesday morning. She said that since then, Mountain Rides had been working to resolve the issue with the help of a local web-design company that designed the Mountain Rides website, which was constructed using WordPress.com.
She said that when users attempted to access the website, a pop-up box would appear and ask them to verify they were human.
The site visitor would be asked to complete a series of steps to “prove you’re not a robot,” which included keyboard commands and on-screen button clicks, before the virus could target the visitor, Hernandez explained.
Just after 11 a.m. Friday, Hernandez told the Express that the issue had been resolved. She said it was not a targeted attack on Mountain Rides but instead an attack across wordpress.com websites like the Mountain Rides website.
Hernandez asked that if anyone in the public encounters a similar pop-up on the Mountain Rides website they reach out to [email protected] to inform the agency of the issue. Hernandez said the website is, once again, safe for traffic.
Hernandez said that two similar cybersecurity threats on the Mountain Rides website had been resolved “right away” after they occurred on May 7 and 13.
