{"id":212430,"date":"2026-02-05T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/italian-university-la-sapienza-goes-offline-after-cyberattack\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:55:15","slug":"italian-university-la-sapienza-goes-offline-after-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/italian-university-la-sapienza-goes-offline-after-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian university La Sapienza goes offline after cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/italian-university-la-sapienza-goes-offline-after-cyberattack\/\">Italian university La Sapienza goes offline after cyberattack<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/italian-university-la-sapienza-goes-offline-after-cyberattack\/\">https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/italian-university-la-sapienza-goes-offline-after-cyberattack\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-05 12:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bleepingcomputer.com\">www.bleepingcomputer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<p>Rome\u2019s \u201cLa Sapienza\u201d university has been targeted by a cyberattack that impacted its IT systems and caused widespread operational disruptions at the educational institute.<\/p>\n<p>The university first disclosed the incident in a social media post earlier this week, saying that its IT infrastructure &#8220;has been the target of a cyberattack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a precautionary measure, and in order to ensure the integrity and security of data, an immediate shutdown of network systems has been ordered,\u201d the organization said.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/c\/w\/Secured-Images-970x250.png\" alt=\"Wiz\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Original statement about the cyberattack\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/images\/news\/u\/1220909\/2026\/February\/announce.jpg\" width=\"900\"\/><strong>Original statement about the cyberattack<\/strong><br \/>Source: BleepingComputer<\/p>\n<p>The university, which is Europe\u2019s largest by number of in-campus students, with over 112,500 enrolled, notified the authorities of the incident and formed a technical task force to initiate remediation and restoration procedures.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, the university\u2019s website remains offline, and new status updates published on Instagram reflect a continued effort to recover from the cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p>As of yesterday&#8217;s announcement, temporary \u201cinfopoints\u201d have been set up for students to provide information accessible through digital systems and databases that are currently unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>Although the university has not disclosed much information about the attack type or the perpetrators, Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera claims that the incident is a ransomware attack perpetrated by a pro-Russian\u00a0threat actor called Femwar02\u00a0and resulted in data encryption.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet released the information based on malware characteristics and operational patterns, which are similar to the Bablock\/Rorschach ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>This is a ransomware strain that first appeared in 2023, featuring fast encryption speeds and extensive customization options. Cybersecurity company Check Point estimated that it was a project built from bits of the leaked sources of Babuk, LockBit v2.0, and DarkSide.<\/p>\n<p>According to Corriere Della Sera\u2019s sources, a ransom exists, but the university staff has&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/italian-university-la-sapienza-goes-offline-after-cyberattack\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian university La Sapienza goes offline after cyberattack https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/italian-university-la-sapienza-goes-offline-after-cyberattack\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-05 12:02:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/content\/hl-images\/2026\/02\/05\/sapienza.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,32,34],"class_list":["post-212430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity","tag-malware","tag-threat-actor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212432,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212430\/revisions\/212432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}