Alex Shakhov, the founder of a cybersecurity consulting firm, disclosed in a recent blog post that earlier this month he discovered that a threat actor had taken over 34 .edu subdomains at major universities — including MIT, Harvard, Stanford and...
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Multiple Tulane University employees are victims of a data breach that exposed names, social security numbers, direct deposit and banking information, according to letters sent by the university. It is unclear how many employees are affected. Tulane has...
Online actors are posing as Harvard University IT personnel and setting up phony websites, designed to look like official Harvard login pages, as part of a targeted campaign to intrude into the university’s network, The Harvard Crimson reported Friday...
The PEAR (Pure Extraction and Ransom) cybercriminal group this month took credit for a ransomware attack against Monmouth University in New Jersey, claiming it made off with 16 terabytes the institution’s data. University President Patrick Leahy emailed...
The Community College of Beaver County is under a cyberattack, with unknown bad actors encrypting all college data and demanding ransom payments to lift it. “We came to campus this morning, the first day of spring break, and our IT department...