Nov 29, 2016 Carleton University of Canada confirms their computer network was attacked by ransomware. Mostly the windows based systems ware compromised. To stop further attack and to fix the issue, users ware advised not to use windows based system.
University’s other operation remains unchanged and classes continued without interruption.
Attacker demands payment in bitcoins. To release the encrypted files, they demanded two bitcoin per machine which is equal to $38,941 (Canadian dollar). But university management did not pay anything. Systems are coming back online slowly when we wrote this article.
Carleton University (www.carleton.ca) is located in Ottawa, capital of Canada. University was found in 1942.
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Writer – Rubayat M.
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