Another UK institution topples at the hands of miscreants
Richard Speed Thu 15 Apr 2021 // 15:04 UTC Share
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The University of Hertfordshire has fallen victim to a cyber attack that has resulted in the establishment pulling all its systems offline to deal with the situation.
The result has been a suspension of all online teaching today and in-person, on-campus teaching only happening if computer access is not required. The university s Wi-Fi is down and there is no student access (either in-person or remote) to its computer facilities.
A look at the British university s status page makes for grim reading. Last updated 12 hours ago (at time of writing) even cloud services, such as Office 365, are disrupted. VPN access and data storage are also offline as well as email and the University Business Systems.
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Cring ransomware hits ICS through two-year-old bug
A long-disclosed vulnerability in Fortinet’s Fortigate VPN servers is being exploited to distribute Cring ransomware
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The operators of Cring ransomware have been conducting a series of damaging attacks on industrial targets and control systems (ICS) after apparently acquiring a list of users of Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN server who had not bothered to patch a dangerous vulnerability.
First identified and fixed some time ago, CVE-2018-13379 is a path traversal vulnerability in several versions of the FortiOS operating system that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to download system files by making specially crafted HTTP resource requests.