Marian Kogler from the IT security consultancy syret in Halle explained to MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT: “You can only exploit the Microsoft printer vulnerability if user rights have already been tapped through phishing emails or other exploitation of vulnerabilities”. But as long as nothing more concrete is announced, further assessments about the attack would be speculation.
State and federal experts
According to Schulze, the district administration is also supported by the Ministry of the Interior, the State Criminal Police Office and experts from the Harz University of Applied Sciences. He emphasized that the contact tracking of corona infected people via the Sormas program was not affected by the hacker attack.
The district can be reached by telephone or post until further notice. It is already clear that the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district administration will not be able to work in the coming week. How it will continue after that is still unclear.