vice society attacks Lewis & Clark College
Incident Date:
March 3, 2023
Overview
Title
vice society attacks Lewis & Clark College
Victim
Lewis & Clark College
Attacker
Vicesociety
Location
First Reported
March 3, 2023
Cybernews Confirms Ransomware Attack on Lewis & Clark
“Cybernews confirmed the March 3 breach with Lewis & Clark VP of Communications Lori Friedman, who told us by Friday evening "that the vast majority of our systems are fully operational." The Cybernews team was also able to check the ransom gang's dark web leak site, where Vice Society has indeed claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack.
Cybersecurity Analyst Raises Alarm
Cybersecurity analyst and security researcher Dominic Alvieri first posted about the breach on Twitter Friday, claiming, “the Lewis and Clark College March system outage is now confirmed as a ransomware attack from Vice Society.”
Official Response from Lewis & Clark
On Friday, the college Executive Council posted a notice about the month-long breach on the school's official website, saying the ransomware attack "significantly impacted almost all IT systems on campus." "The cybercriminals responsible for the incident now claim to have published a limited amount of Lewis & Clark data on a "dark web" website maintained by the threat actors," the school said. However, they "do not have reliable information about the scope or content of the allegedly published data." The Council also said they are refusing to pay the ransom demand – which has not been disclosed – on the advice of law enforcement and security experts helping with the case.
Leaked Data on the Dark Web
The gang’s leak site posted what appears to be a live link tree of the entire college network system, along with three rotating photo albums that continuously flip through a sample of alleged photocopies of student passports.”
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