Cyber Crime

Fire and rescue service in Victoria, Australia, confirms cyber attack

The fire and rescue service in the state of Victoria, Australia, has shut down its network and turned to operating manually after a cyberattack.

The fire and rescue service in the state of Victoria (FRV), Australia, has shut down its network after a cyber attack launched by “an external third party.” 

Fire Rescue Victoria acting Commissioner Gavin Freeman revealed that the outage was first observed between 4am and 5am on Thursday.

FRV operates 85 fire and rescue stations across the state.

The cyberattack is affecting most of FRV systems, including network, emails and dispatch.

“Importantly, community safety has not been compromised and FRV continues to dispatch crews and appliances through mobile phones, pagers and radios.” reads a statement published on Friday. “Preliminary investigations confirm this has been a cyber-attack by an external third party and that FRV systems are impacted.”

 FRV continues to operate by dispatch crews and appliances through mobile phones, pagers and radios.

“We’re doing it in a more manual way, but it doesn’t have any impact on response times or community safety,” the acting commissioner said.

At the time it was still unclear if FRV has suffered a ransomware attack.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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