Security News > 2022 > August > Spanish research agency still recovering after ransomware attack
The Spanish National Research Council last month was hit by a ransomware attack that is now attributed to Russian hackers.
CSIC is a state agency for scientific research and technological development part of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation but with a special status in that it has "Its own assets and treasury, functional and managerial autonomy."
In a statement on Tuesday, the agency said that the ransomware attack occurred on the weekend of July 16-17 and it was detected on Monday, July 18.
The agency notes that it followed the protocol and isolated from the network several of its research centers in an effort to control the attack and prevent it from spreading to segments that had not been impacted directly.
While not entirely clear, the agency appears to indicate that the attack was the work of a cybercriminal gang.
This attack is similar to that suffered by other research centers such as the Max Planck Institute or the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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