“We therefore made the difficult decision to pay some portion of the ransom, approximately $1.14 million…” UCSF Under Attack On June 3rd, 2020, The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) announced a portion of their school faced a data breach. The portion of UCSF affected is the UCSF School of Medicine. Reports indicate that the ransomware used to attack the school traces back to Netwalker Ransomware. After the discovery of the security incident and data encryption, UCSF decided to pay over one million dollars in ransom, for a decryption key. Now, let’s take a look at the incident in greater detail, to understand the attack in its entirety. … Read More
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