{"id":8338,"date":"2023-05-04T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/?p=8338"},"modified":"2023-05-30T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T05:07:52","slug":"avos-ransomware-gang-hijacks-university-alert-system-to-issue-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/avos-ransomware-gang-hijacks-university-alert-system-to-issue-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Avos ransomware gang hijacks university alert system to issue threats"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8338\" class=\"elementor elementor-8338\" 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-91701e2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"91701e2\" 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-b22a889\" data-id=\"b22a889\" 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-f3f8cd6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f3f8cd6\" 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\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<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-59649d1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"59649d1\" 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-93479a1\" data-id=\"93479a1\" 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-cc8c444 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cc8c444\" 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 Sunday 30<sup>th<\/sup> of April 2023, Bluefield University disclosed that the university had suffered a cyberattack that impacted the IT systems, causing all examinations to be postponed. However, at that time it had claimed that its investigation had found no evidence of any cases of financial fraud or identity theft linked to the incident.<\/p><p>Although on Monday 1<sup>st<\/sup> of May 2023, the Avos ransomware gang hijacked Bluefield University&#8217;s emergency broadcast system, &#8220;RamAlert,&#8221; to send students and staff SMS texts and email alerts that their data was stolen and would soon be released if the University did not pay a ransom demand. Further alerts included instructions and links on how to access the ransomware gang&#8217;s data leak site.<\/p><p>To apply more pressure on the university, the Avos ransomware gang released a limited amount of stolen data, including a W-2 Tax Form for the University&#8217;s President and a document related to their insurance policy. Bluefield University has published an update on the cyberattack, informing students and staff that remediation and system restoration efforts are still underway and that no evidence of any cases of financial fraud or identity theft linked to the incident.<\/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 Sunday 30th of April 2023, Bluefield University disclosed that the university had suffered a cyberattack that impacted the IT systems, causing all examinations to be postponed. However, at that time it had claimed that its investigation had found no evidence of any cases of financial fraud or identity theft linked to the incident. Although on Monday 1st of May<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,6,12,9,2,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heavy-industry","category-latest_news","category-read_article","category-ransomware_criminals","category-ce_news","category-industry_sector","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cyberenso.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Picture1-4.jpg?fit=1378%2C920&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338"}],"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=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8346,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions\/8346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}