Cyberattack knocks out California community college email, website, landlines

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A 12,500-student community college in California is suffering from a cyberattack that brought down the school's online services and campus phone lines.

College of the Desert – based in Palm Desert, California – did not respond to questions about whether the incident was a ransomware attack, only calling it a “computer network disruption” in a statement to The Record.
College of the Desert public information officer Nicholas Robles called the incident a “malware attack” in an interview with local newspaper The Desert Sun.
On Twitter and Facebook, the school explained that it is experiencing a systemwide outage of most online services but noted that programs such as Canvas, Adobe, and Microsoft Teams are still available to students.
 

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