Switzerland’s largest university confirms ‘serious cyberattack’

guest · Feb 3, 2023

By Alexander Martin @AlexMartin - February 3, 2023

The University of Zurich, Switzerland’s largest university, announced on Friday it was the target of a “serious cyberattack,” which comes amid a wave of hacks targeting German-speaking institutions.
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The university’s website is currently inaccessible, but the phone line to the press office is working. In a statement sent to The Record, a spokesperson described the incident as “part of a current accumulation of attacks on educational and health institutions.”

Explaining this accumulation, they cited “several attacks” that “have been carried out on universities in German-speaking countries in recent weeks, resulting in suspension of their IT services for extended periods of time. The attacks are usually carried out by compromising several individual accounts and systems.”
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The identity of the attackers and nature of the attack was not disclosed. The university said it was conducted by perpetrators “acting in a very professional manner.”
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