Spanish research center suffers cyberattack linked to Russia

guest · Aug 3, 2022

August 2, 2022

Spain’s leading scientific research body was targeted by a cyberattack that national authorities suspect had its origin in Russia, the country's science ministry said Tuesday.

Spain’s science ministry said the Spanish National Research Council was targeted by the ransomware attack on July 16-17.
A preliminary analysis by Spain’s cybersecurity authorities said that it appears that no sensitive or confidential information was extracted.
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In a statement, the ministry said that the cyberattack was similar to others carried out against NASA in the United States and the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
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guest · Aug 3, 2022

Spanish research agency still recovering after ransomware attack
August 3, 2022

The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) 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.”
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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.

At the moment most of the agency’s centers are still disconnected and unavailable as just a little over 25% of them are online.

“To date, just over a quarter of the CSIC centers already have a connection to the network and in the next few days it will be restored throughout the network of centers”
CSIC does not say if any of its systems were encrypted. The investigation into the incident is ongoing but the team in charge found no indication that the attacker stole sensitive or confidential information.
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