Campus Still Closed as Portsmouth University Reels from Suspected Ransomware
News and information from the Advent IM team.
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Key IT systems at the University of Portsmouth continue to remain offline this week after a supposed ransomware attack, delaying the start of the new term.
A notice on the university’s homepage doesn’t explicitly name ransomware as the cause of the “cyber incident,” but the “ongoing technical disruption” it describes is a tell-tale sign of such attacks. However, The News has reported that it has seen an email from the university claiming it suffered a ransomware attack.
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