Maastricht University (UM) announced ransomware infected almost all of its Windows systems on Monday, December 23. “Maastricht University (UM) has been hit by a serious cyber attack. Almost all Windows systems have been affected and it is particularly difficult to use e-mail services.” reads the notice published by the UM. UM is investigating if the cyber attackers have had access to this data.” The UM is investigating the incident and is working to restore operations, it also reported the incident to law enforcement. The university did not reveal details of the attack, it is not clear the family of ransomware that infected its systems. In response to the attack, the UM has taken down its systems as a precautionary measure. “In order to work as safely as possible, UM has temporarily taken all of its systems offline.” reads an update published by the university.
Cable provider Volia appealed to the Cyber Police on the fact of fixing a DDoS attack on the Kharkov servers of the company, which has been ongoing since May 31. "For three days, from May 31 to today, the Volia infrastructure in Kharkov is subjected to cyberattacks. At first, they were carried out only on subscriber subsystems, later they switched to telecommunications infrastructure. As a result, more than 100,000 subscribers experienced problems using the Internet, IPTV, multi-screen platform, and digital TV," said the company. In total, the complete lack of access to Volia's services, according to the provider, lasted 12 minutes on May 31, 45 minutes on June 1. There was also an attack on the website volia.com, but it was managed to neutralize. "DDoS attacks were massive and well-organized. The type of attack is UDP flood and channel capacity overflow with the traffic of more than 200 GB. UDP is a protocol used for online streaming services - streaming, te...
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