1. One wonders how easily this could happen to Notre Dame.
2. The last 24 months have not been the best for Sparty.
Michigan State University received a deadline to pay ransomware attackers under the threat that files stolen from the institution’s network will be leaked to the public.
The demand is from Netwalker ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operators, a group that recently started to recruit skilled network intruders for their affiliate program.
A countdown timer on the attacker’s website shows that the university has about six days to comply or “secret data” will become public.