Romania’s cybersecurity agency confirms a major ransomware attack on the country’s water management administration has compromised around 1,000 systems, with work to remediate them still ongoing.
Administrația Națională Apele Române (Romanian Waters) says its geographical information system applications servers, database servers, Windows workstations, Windows Servers, email and web servers, and domain name servers are all affected. Its website remains offline, so official information is being disseminated via alternative sources. Romanian Waters oversees the country’s water infrastructure, including dams, waterways, drinking water supplies, and monitoring systems.
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