Israel’s top tech university postpones exams after ransomware attack

Israel’s leading technology university, Technion, suffered a cyberattack on Sunday, forcing it to shut down its systems and postpone exams this week.

Hackers from a previously unknown group called DarkBit left a ransom note explaining the alleged motives behind their attack and demanding 80 bitcoins ($1.7 million) to recover the university’s data.

Despite ransom demands, the cyberattack also appears to be ideological. In its message to the university administration, DarkBit accuses the “apartheid regime” of “occupation, war crimes, killing the …

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