By Leonardo Lanzi, coordinator of the GARR CERT Once upon a time… In March 2016, I had the chance to be near enough a ransomware infection to be able to examine how it functions and its effects and, as I was not being the real target, I was able to...
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By Francesco Palmieri, professor of Computer Science at the University of Salerno Ransomware, considered today an important emergency from the cyber security point of view, is from malware agents who limit access to a device or to the data stored on it...
In May 2019, the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) was able to prevent a ransomware attack just in time. For the Cyber Security Month 2020 initiative, GÉANT contacted Marius Mertens, CISO of UDE, to learn how the university managed to prevent such...
On 23 December last year, Maastricht University (UM) was hit by a major ransomware attack. The hackers executed a command installing ‘Clop’ ransomware on 267 servers of the Windows domain. As a result, almost all of UM’s operational...
On 23 December last year, Maastricht University (UM), which is connected to the Dutch education and research network SURFnet, was hit by a major ransomware attack. After thorough investigation and serious consideration, the institution decided to pay the...