n late November 2022, a few days after ETH Alumni launched their new feature “Who is who” which allows them to look up and connect to other members, I came across a severe access control vulnerability. Without any authorization over the internet, it allowed extracting at least 35418 member profiles, including full name, postal address, nationality, title, graduation field, study start year, gender, profile picture and hashed passwords.

The University of Zurich is currently the target of a serious cyberattack. The perpetrators appear to be acting in a very professional manner and are part of a current accumulation of attacks on educational and health institutions. Several attacks have been carried out on universities in German-speaking countries in recent weeks, resulting in suspension of their IT services for extended periods of time. The attacks are usually carried out by compromising several individual accounts and systems.

Des cybercriminels ont pris l'Université de Zurich pour cible.

The chief executive of one of Europe’s biggest insurance companies has warned that cyber attacks, rather than natural catastrophes, will become “uninsurable” as the disruption from hacks continues to grow.

Une fuite de données secoue le monde politique zurichois, à deux mois des élections cantonales. Entre 2006 et 2012, un ancien prestataire informatique du Département de la justice a omis d'effacer des données parfois sensibles sur des ordinateurs remplacés.

The settlement last week in a $100 million lawsuit over whether insurance giant Zurich should cover losses Mondelez International suffered from NotPetya may very well reshape the entire cyber insurance marketplace. Zurich initially denied claims from Mondelez after the malware, which experts estimate caused some $10 billion in damages globally, wreaked havoc on its computer networks. The insurance provider claimed an act of war exemption since it’s widely believed Russian military hackers unleashed NotPetya on a Ukrainian company before it spread around the world.

In the context of an internationally coordinated operation against a ransomware group, the Zurich Public Prosecutor’s Office is leading criminal proceedings against an accused person. At the same time, cyber investigators of the Zurich Cantonal Police have been intensively analysing the data storage devices seized from that person in the past months. This analysis has revealed numerous private keys. They enable the aggrieved companies to recover their encrypted data.