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Minister urges caution after hacker attack

2021-10-17T18:46:35.639Z


After hackers used Trojans to attack IT systems in Schwerin and in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, there are still problems. The responsible minister urgently warns of email attachments.


After hackers used Trojans to attack IT systems in Schwerin and in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, there are still problems.

The responsible minister urgently warns of email attachments.

Schwerin - After the hacker attack on municipal IT systems, the Ludwigslust-Parchim district administration remains closed on Monday.

In this context, digitization minister Christian level (SPD) warned all internet users in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to be cautious.

This is especially true when dealing with e-mails from unknown senders, he said on Sunday.

"Do not open any documents that are attached to such mails."

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Take the attack on the IT service provider for Schwerin, a large data processing company, and the Ludwigslust-Parchim district on Friday "very seriously," said level.

A large part of the communal IT infrastructure is always affected - in authorities as well as in schools and communal companies.

Experts continued to try to get the systems working again.

The district pointed out that the district administrations in Ludwigslust and Parchim should be available again by phone from Tuesday.

But there are further restrictions.

So emails could still not be received or answered.

Level assumes, according to its own information, that the network of the state administration is not affected, as the interface was cut in good time.

Enlightenment is being worked on.

"Who is behind this attack and what is the purpose of it, we do not yet know."

According to the district, the administration was attacked by hackers with a so-called encryption Trojan.

According to the current state of knowledge, however, no data leakage was found.

dpa

Source: merkur

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