Ransomware: Hochschule HAW continues to clean up
At the beginning of the year, the HAW - the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences - had major problems because the educational institution was hit by a cyber attack. In March, the updated data was evaluated and further clean-up work is still ongoing. The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences was the victim of an extensive ransomware attack by the APT group Vice Society at the beginning of the year. Since the university did not pay the ransom, the IT department had to remodel a lot internally, save data and rebuild systems. The heart of the HAW's information policy has been its own website from the very beginning. There is…