St Peter's School, Cambridge, back online after cyber attack - Stuff.co.nz

St Peter's School, Cambridge, back online after cyber attack - Stuff.co.nz


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St Peter's School, Cambridge, discovered the ransomware attack on Saturday and restored its IT systems on Wednesday.


IT systems are go at St Peter’s School, Cambridge, days after the private school was caught up in a global ransomware attack.


At least 11 New Zealand schools were affected when attackers manipulated a tool made by a California-founded company called Kaseya, allowing REvil ransomware into devices.


The infiltrated software is intended to help keep systems secure by deploying patches and keeping them up to date.


St Peter’s disabled its entire network in a few hours after discovering the attack on Saturday, chief operating officer Rob Campbell has told Stuff.

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RNZ


Schools are offline and more than 100 North Island kindergartens are back to pen and paper due to a major international ransomware hit.



But it was restored to full capacity on Wednesday, he said.



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