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Kansai Medical University: staff PCs were infected with Emotet and mail posing as staff was sent from outside servers

From October 23, suspicious mail posing as staff was sent from servers unrelated to the university to past contacts. The clinical systems were not affected.

Disclosed

2020-10-30

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. From this day, suspicious mail in staff members' names was sent from servers other than the university's to people who had exchanged mail with them. [1] [2]

  2. The university announced that some staff PCs were infected with Emotet. [1] [2]

Response

All PCs were checked and the clinical systems were isolated from the network. The university said the clinical systems were not affected. [1] [2]

Timeline

  1. Disclosed 2020-10-30
  2. 1 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Malware]
Impact
Entry point
E-mail

Data exposed or at risk

–

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][News]職員端末が「Emotet」感染、診療系システムには影響なし - 関西医科大Security NEXT · 2020-11-05
  2. [2][News]関西医科大学職員のパソコンが「Emotet」感染、診療系ICTシステムは影響無しScanNetSecurity · 2020-11-05 08:00