University confirms ‘serious cyberattack’ amid other hacks

The University of Zurich, Switzerland’s largest university, announced on Friday 3 February it was the target of a “serious cyberattack”, which comes amid a wave of hacks targeting German-speaking institutions, writes Alexander Martin for The Record.

In a statement sent to The Record, a spokesperson described the incident as “part of a current accumulation of attacks on educational and health institutions”.

Explaining this accumulation, they cited “several attacks” that “have been carried out on universities in German-speaking countries in recent weeks, resulting in suspension of their IT services for extended periods of time. The attacks are usually carried out by compromising several individual accounts and systems.”
Full report on The Record site