Page 20 - AUCSO Newsletter - Winter 2023

University ‘will never pay ransoms’

despite darknet data leak

Duisburg-Essen has had to rebuild entire IT
infrastructure and postpone admissions
deadlines, although teaching and exams are
able to continue.
“As a matter of principle, the University of
Duisburg-Essen [UDE] does not respond to
digital extortion by criminal organisations,”
Barbara Albert, its rector, told Times Higher
Education. “Since the UDE has not paid a
ransom and will not do so in the future, the
attackers have now published stolen data
on the darknet.”
Read Full Story Here: Times Higher Education

Fentanyl has killed 100,000 Americans.

Is Europe next?

Mexican cartels want to flood the Continent with the opioid that’s deadlier than heroin and harder
to detect. Police have a job on their hands. Europe has been warned that a flood of fentanyl, the
synthetic opioid that has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States, is heading this way.

Belgium is on the front
line of the new drugs
war, as the main entry
point for narcotics
arriving from Latin
America, and its
customs chief says
that fentanyl is a
bigger threat than
heroin or cocaine.

A string of drug raids
that seized small
quantities of fentanyl
in Europe over recent months has raised fears that the drug — 50 times more powerful than heroin
— has arrived in Europe, as Mexican cartels seek to build a new market. The highly addictive
opioid has ravaged the US, driving overdose deaths to 110,236 last year.

Read Full Story Here: The Times

- 20 -