The Ransomware Gang Targets University Alert Systems

“RamAlert,” an emergency broadcast system used by Bluefield University to communicate with its students and staff, has been hijacked by the Avos ransomware gang. The gang sent SMS texts and emails informing them that their data had been stolen and was in the process of being released. With more than 900 students and a small campus in Bluefield, Virginia, Bluefield is a private university.

In a recent announcement, a university in the Virginia area advises students to be cautious of texts received via the school’s mass alert system. This was in response to a ransomware group alerting the entire campus that a cyberattack is taking place. 

It was announced on Sunday that Bluefield University, a private Baptist school in Bluefield, Virginia that serves approximately 1,000 students, had shut down its systems for an unknown period as a result of a recent cyber-attack and that their systems would remain down for an unknown period. 

According to hacker messages posted on Bluefield University’s RamAlert, an app that sends text and email messages to students and faculty during school emergencies, hackers send a series of messages urging them to go over to the university’s president and state their concerns. 

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