Breaches and incidents
Universitaet Bremen: zero-day attack on decentralised university systems
The university said on 22 Sep it was the target of a cyberattack that “war eine solche Zero-Day-Attacke” against decentralised facilities.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Checked against a primary source
What happened
- The university said on 22 Sep it was the target of a cyberattack that “war eine solche Zero-Day-Attacke” against decentralised facilities; central services were not affected and “Studierendendaten sind zu keinem Zeitpunkt abgeflossen”.
- Root cause: exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability (per the university); the product was not named.
- No attacker named; the university places it in a worldwide wave of attacks on institutions.
- Affected systems were taken offline immediately and the vulnerability closed.