The National College of Ireland disclosed a cyberattack on April 3. Here is their most recent update: 6th April Update: Please note that all classes, assessments and induction sessions planned from today Tuesday 6th until this Thursday 8th April inclusive have been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date. The college will issue a…
Category: Education Sector
Brown University hit by cyberattack, some systems still offline
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Brown University, a private US research university, had to disable systems and cut connections to the data center after suffering a cyberattack on Tuesday. The Ivy League school’s IT staff said the attack focused on the university’s Windows-based devices and asked faculty and staff to switch to computers running other operating systems,…
MO: Affton School District discloses ransomware attack; current and former employees impacted
On February 25, Affton School District notified its community about a ransomware attack. As part of their notification, they wrote: We do not believe any sensitive information has been accessed and no personal data, financial information, or grades have been found to be compromised. As a routine layer of protection, this information is stored on…
University of Maryland, Baltimore responds to Accellion breach
This week, a number of universities were added to CLOP threat actors’ dark web leak site. They appear to be linked to the Accellion breach in December and January. As a reminder, many of Accellion’s clients used a standalone server with Accellion’s software to transfer large files. The attack did not hit Accellion’s clients’ own…
Update on education sector clients impacted by Blackbaud ransomware incident
I don’t know how he finds the energy to do it, but Marco A. DeFelice (@amvinfe on Twitter) continues to track disclosures involving Blackbaud’s ransomware incident of 2020. He has organized his tabulations by whether the entities are hospitals or educational facitlities, etc. Today he has provided another update to the education sector, in which…
GA: Cyberattack on Cobb schools enabled by contractor’s weak password, police say
Kristal Dixon reports: An attack on the Cobb County School District’s crisis management system that forced all schools into lockdown last month happened because of a weak password, according the police. The password was not created by a school district employee, but a worker with the AlertPoint security system used by the district, police said….