Spate of ransomware attacks on German-speaking schools hits another in Switzerland

The ransomware attack on the BBZ follows another on the University of Zurich, Switzerland’s largest university, last year that was described as “part of a current accumulation of attacks on educational and health institutions.”

The wave of hacks targeting German-speaking institutions includes incidents impacting the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and Hochschule Kempten earlier this year, alongside others affecting the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Harz University of Applied Sciences in Saxony-Anhalt, Ruhr West University, and the EU/FH European University of Applied Sciences.

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