Very recently I wrote about the attack that the servers of my university received in the area of telematics and computer services.
You can read at the following link: Ransomware is attacking my university..
Computer services.
At the time of writing this post I have received the information that they are still working hard in the direction of the computer services of my university, in order to recover the computers, when I say recover I mean that they are formatting all the computers that were attacked by This malicious "Ransomware" software, until all the computers are properly formatted, will not be able to connect and begin to reinstall again all the programs necessary to put the administrative and student services online.
They managed to flee my country
It certainly has not been very easy to get the computing department back on track, and this is due to the lack of staff in that department. The reason is the one that all Venezuela suffers, many but many Venezuelans managed to flee my country and that includes several coworkers and especially that fundamental department that is the computer brain of the university.
Extreme quarantine.
The few personnel who are working to put the teams into operation are doing what is humanly possible. Something that is against is the city where the university's rectory is located, in that city it has extreme quarantine measures, and for this reason they can only be in the offices for only three hours a day, which I mean people can circulate from 8 am. until 11 am.
Due to this situation of extreme quarantine, my colleagues can only circulate until 11 am, if they do so after those hours they run the risk of being detained by the police.
To leave the offices.
To have the operational teams there are only two people in charge of all the equipment, and they are the director of the computer services and a computer engineer, so only those two people are working, imagine for a moment that, because they are working you forget the time to leave and unfortunately leave your office after 11 am. You simply run the risk of being arrested by the police, and this would be very unfortunate that for helping the university they put you in jail, because that is the terrible situation in my country.
Both of them, the director of computing and the engineer, do their best and all of us from our nuclei wish that they can finish and can put all the computer services of the university into operation.
This attack that our university received for this malicious software "Ransomware" is terrible
The university will achieve a resurgence.
The biggest piece of advice I give you is. DO NOT PAY never ransom.
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Quite unfortunate situation.
These servers were running Windows OS ?
Yes. Unfortunately.
Thank you for keeping us up to date on the situation... I cannot even imagine how hard it must be to work with this during the circumstances that you have with the coronavirus at the moment! Big credits to the guy in the computer department!
@unbiasedwriter Friend is terrible.
The head of the department and the analyst expose themselves a lot, and the worst of the worst is the terrible salary they receive.
Just like me. They work for love of what they do.
Seems like one would NOT want to cyber attach a university with youth just itching for some competition.
well the positive is that they are already recovering, it really is terrible that they have so many restrictions to get to or from work It is worrying and from what is said, starting tomorrow will be stricter with quarantine Hopefully we can overcome all this soon.