The Medusa ransomware group has cyber-attacked the Open University of Cyprus.
The group claims it would delay publishing the data by one day for $10,000.
- OUC is a remote online university based in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- The university has over 4,200 students.
- Today, the Medusa ransomware group made a new claim, giving the university 14 days to respond to its ransom demands.
- The group has asked for $100,000 to either delete the data or sell it to a bidder.
- Unlike other ransomware actors, Medusa also cyberattacks education institutions.
- The
breach has forced the university to provide deadline extensions on
assignments for students, most of which will be decided by the
professors.
- At the beginning of March, the hacker group targeted the Minneapolis Public Schools district, demanding a ransom of $1M.
