Re: Brown University - Cybersecurity Threat Announcement

[Sol Bermann <solb () UMICH EDU>]

Brown is in the middle of an incident and investigation. If they care, or
have time, to share, they will.

We should give them the space to focus on themselves first.

The FBI and CISA alerts over the last weeks/months regarding targetting of
high ed is enough for all of us to go on for now
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/News/2021/210316.pdf
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fbi-alert-pysa-ransomware-target/
https://www.cyberscoop.com/fbi-egregor-ransomware-cybercrime/

Sol Bermann
Chief Information Security Officer
Executive Director of Information Assurance
Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Information
University of Michigan

734/615-9661
solb () umich edu
https://www.safecomputing.umich.edu/
https://safecomputing.umich.edu/six-words-about-privacy




On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 1:21 PM Nadim El-Khoury <
0000024d485fe2c4-dmarc-request () listserv educause edu> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Do we know what threat Brown University detected that prompted them to
> shut down connections to their central data center?  It would be helpful to
> understand the nature of the threat and be on the lookout.
>
>
> https://it.brown.edu/alerts/read/it-security-threat-and-temporary-systems-outage
>
>
> https://edscoop.com/brown-u-cuts-off-data-center-after-detecting-cybersecurity-threat/
>
> Best,
>
> Nadim
>
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