College of the Desert

The College of the Desert fell a victim to a ransomware attack that took most of its online services have been offline.

The attack affected its website is not available, and campus phone lines and left its employees inaccessible to their email accounts.

OD has launched a temporary website, codnews.org, to share updates about the attack and in the meanwhile, its IT staff investigated the incident and worked hard to get the main website back soon.

Source: https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/education/2022/07/05/malware-attack-takes-down-college-desert-network-again/7813631001/

TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/college-of-the-desert

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"linkid": "college-of-the-desert",
"type": "Ransomware",
"date": "6/2017",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"

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                        'name': 'College of the Desert',
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                'affected its website, campus phone lines, and left employees '
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