Security News > 2021 > February > Cyberattack on Dutch Research Council (NWO) suspends research grants
Servers belonging to the Dutch Research Council have been compromised, forcing the organization to make its network unavailable and suspend subsidy allocation for the foreseeable future.
The NWO is tasked with investing in research and research infrastructure to increase quality and innovation in science.
It funds thousands of researchers at universities and institutes in the country, driving quality and innovation in science.
This includes the organization's email service and the online resources from the two entities under NWO, the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research and the National Governing Body for Practice-oriented Research SIA. NWO says that its website was not impacted by the attack.
The NWO is the second public body tasked with investing in science and research that has been hit by a cyberattack in less than a month.
In late January, the UK Research and Innovation agency announced that it had suffered a ransomware attack that encrypted data and affected two of its services.