{"id":5674,"date":"2021-10-14T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2021-12-10T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T04:24:31","slug":"university-of-sunderland-experience-long-term-outage-after-cyber-attack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/university-of-sunderland-experience-long-term-outage-after-cyber-attack-2\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Sunderland experience long-term outage after cyber attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5674\" class=\"elementor elementor-5674\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3c6f6f7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3c6f6f7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c83a5e4\" data-id=\"c83a5e4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76be610 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"76be610\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On Wednesday 13<sup>th<\/sup> of October 2021, the University of Sunderland in the UK announced they were experience IT issues that had led to most of their IT systems being taken down. The university stated the IT issues all indicated that they were experiencing a cyber-attack.<\/p><p>The first signs of the incident were seen on Tuesday morning but weren\u2019t investigated straight away as they were seen to be not serious by university. But by Wednesday, all telephone lines, the official website, the main email servers, library Wi-Fi, on-premises PC\/laptop access, printing, and all online portals were taken down and eventually an alternative domain had to be set up to keep student updated on the situation.<\/p><p>Although the University of Sunderland hasn\u2019t stated the incident to be a ransomware attack, there is a high possibly of it being a ransomware attack as it is known that ransomware groups have targeted large educational institutes with the belief, they are more likely to pay the ransom.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 13th of October 2021, the University of Sunderland in the UK announced they were experience IT issues that had led to most of their IT systems being taken down. The university stated the IT issues all indicated that they were experiencing a cyber-attack. The first signs of the incident were seen on Tuesday morning but weren\u2019t investigated straight<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","category-latest_vulnerabilities","category-read_article","category-ce_news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cyberenso.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Picture1-6.jpg?fit=1377%2C919&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}