Switzerland’s largest university confirms ‘serious cyberattack’

The University of Zurich, Switzerland’s largest university, announced on Friday it was the target of a “serious cyberattack,” which comes amid a wave of hacks targeting German-speaking institutions.

The university’s website is currently inaccessible, but the phone line to the press office is working. In a statement sent to The Record, a spokesperson described the incident as “part of a current accumulation of attacks on educational and health institutions.”

Explaining this accumulation, they cited “several attacks” that “have been carried …

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