Security News > 2021 > March > Brit college forced to shift all teaching online for a week while it picks up the pieces from ransomware attack
An English college has temporarily closed all eight of its campuses and moved all teaching online after a "Major" ransomware attack "Disabled" its IT systems.
"The College has suffered a major ransomware attack on our IT system which has disabled many of our core IT systems," the institute said in a note to students posted on its website.
Ransomware attacks are fairly commonplace in the COVID-19 era after much of the world shifted to remote working.
Educational bodies are merely the latest fashionable target among ransomware extortionists.
Infosec company Recorded Future, perhaps unwisely, gave a ransomware criminal claiming to be the leader of the REvil gang a platform from which the extortionist bragged about his "Brand reputation".
The podcasters are not alone: the lure of ransomware gangs' infamy has also tempted the BBC, which last year seemingly allowed itself to be used as a force multiplier by a ransomware gang negotiating a payoff with a victim.
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