A group of hackers has taken responsibility for a cyber attack that disrupted internet connectivity at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester, reportedly citing the “UK’s continued support for Israel”.
Systems were affected at the University of Cambridge and the University of Manchester, with internet access impacted and email systems delayed.
The disruption is reportedly the latest attack by Anonymous Sudan, a notorious hacktivist group that has previously caused widespread outages on X, formerly Twitter.
It disrupted internet connectivity at UK universities “because of the UK’s continued support of Israel” in the Gaza conflict, according to Joe Tidy, the BBC’s cyber correspondent.
In a post on X, he said the hackers had targeted these universities specifically “because they are the biggest ones” they could find.
Cambridge reported a malicious denial of service attack that made internet access intermittent.
The Clinical School Computing Service, which provides IT Services to staff and researchers in the university’s clinical school and beyond,…
