City of Potsdam Servers Offline Following Cyberattack

guest · Jan 24, 2020

City of Potsdam Servers Offline Following Cyberattack
January 24, 2020
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The City of Potsdam severed the administration servers' Internet connection following a cyberattack that took place earlier this week. Emergency services including the city's fire department fully operational and payments are not affected.

Potsdam is the largest city and the capital of the German federal state of Brandenburg, bordering the German capital, Berlin.

"We put our systems offline for security reasons, because we have to assume an illegal cyberattack," Mayor Mike Schubert said two days ago. "We are working flat out to ensure that the affected administration systems are switched on again as soon as possible and that we can work safely again."
"The background to this is a weak point in the system of an external provider, which attempts to retrieve data from the state capital from outside without authorization or to install malware," an official statement says.
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Vulnerable Citrix servers could be behind the attack
While the City of Potsdam's updates on the cyberattack do not go into detail on what was the method the attackers used to infiltrate the network, German journalist Hanno Böck found Citrix ADC servers on the administration's network vulnerable to attacks exploiting the CVE-2019-1978 vulnerability.

Böck says that the servers he found weren't protected using mitigation measures provided by Citrix over a month ago.
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