{"id":821,"date":"2022-12-23T08:09:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T08:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2022-12-23T08:09:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T08:09:59","slug":"queensland-university-of-technology-printers-to-spit-out-ransomware-notes-in-bulk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Queensland University of Technology printers to spit out ransomware notes in bulk."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcybersecuritynest.com%2F%3Fp%3D821\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Share&nbsp;on&nbsp;Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/?p=821&amp;via=CYBERSECNEST\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Tweet&nbsp;on&nbsp;Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe&nbsp;to&nbsp;Newsletter<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-large mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-822\" src=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3b557eedbd90860eb8f4556c9974fe86-300x146.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3b557eedbd90860eb8f4556c9974fe86-300x146.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3b557eedbd90860eb8f4556c9974fe86-1024x499.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3b557eedbd90860eb8f4556c9974fe86-768x374.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3b557eedbd90860eb8f4556c9974fe86.jpeg 1174w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Campus printers have been spit out in large quantities of ransomware notes as a result of a cyberattack at Queensland&#8217;s second-largest university.<br \/>\nAs a precaution, several IT systems at the Queensland University of Technology have been shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Margaret Sheil, Vice-Chancellor of QUT, stated that her own printer was one of the affected individuals this morning.<\/p>\n<p>She stated, &#8220;In my situation, it printed out until there was no more paper in my printer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ransom note claims to be from &#8220;Royal ransomware,&#8221; a type of ransomware that, according to Professor Sheil, operated a &#8220;well-known&#8221; scheme.<\/p>\n<p>After the first ransomware attacks were reported in the United States in September, the health department of the United States recently issued a warning to hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, American authorities issued a warning to healthcare departments: &#8220;Royal is a newer ransomware, and less is known about the malware and operators than others.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe printed ransomware note warns that unless a &#8220;modest royalty&#8221; is paid, &#8220;your critical data was not only encrypted but also copied.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Teacher Sheil said different frameworks were compromised, however none of the &#8220;center&#8221; understudy, staff or monetary frameworks gave off an impression of being involved.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a precaution, the university has shut down all of its IT systems while technical staff and outside experts investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Sheil stated, &#8220;We&#8217;ve shut down everything that&#8217;s sensitive in terms of holding data and things like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve shut down or stopped access to most of the systems that aren&#8217;t working, like the system that manages all of the student enrollment data, the system that students use to get information about their classes, and staff systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are other systems that have been compromised; they may not have been shut down, but a file may have been locked by the attack,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you need more local news?<br \/>\nIn each state and territory, we provide custom front pages for audience members in the area. Learn how to subscribe to more Queensland news.<\/p>\n<p>The Queenslander sign on October 8, 2020, in the border town of Wallangarra, Queensland, between New South Wales and Queensland.<br \/>\nThe incident has been brought to the attention of faculty and students.<\/p>\n<p>Students who received an offer to study at the university this morning are also being contacted by QUT. At the university, students can accept an offer, but they won&#8217;t be able to finish their paperwork until the IT systems are back online.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Sheil stated, &#8220;We want to reassure those hopefully very excited new students that this will not affect them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Professor Sheil, federal authorities had been informed of the university&#8217;s cyber breach response strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the federal Department of Education is aware of the incident has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcybersecuritynest.com%2F%3Fp%3D821\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Share&nbsp;on&nbsp;Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/?p=821&amp;via=CYBERSECNEST\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Tweet&nbsp;on&nbsp;Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe&nbsp;to&nbsp;Newsletter<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-large mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus printers have been spit out in large quantities of ransomware notes as a result of a cyberattack at Queensland&#8217;s second-largest university. As a precaution, several IT systems at the Queensland University of Technology have been shut down. Professor Margaret Sheil, Vice-Chancellor of QUT, stated that her own printer was one of the affected individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyber-attack"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}