Feng Chia University was attacked by the emerging NOVA ransomware group, the school has confirmed, and it said that necessary measures have been taken to prevent the damage from escalating. The private university, located in the central Taiwan city of...
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CloudSEK’s findings indicate that the botnet has expanded its arsenal of attack vectors by approximately 50% since an earlier report in 2024. A concerning discovery was a command-and-control (C2) logger panel hosted on a subdomain of the University of...
A paper published this week by the nonprofit Educause shows that turnover in cybersecurity roles remains low and fewer professionals are planning to leave their departments. The survey found that two-thirds of 141 cybersecurity and privacy professionals...
The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) announced on Thursday that it had decided to slap penalty surcharges of 623 million won ($459,000) on Jeonbuk National University and 343 million won on Ewha Womans University. On July 28, 2024, the...
‘Ghost’ students are hijacking millions from colleges—and locking real human students out of classes
Scammers disguised as thousands of fake students are flooding colleges across the U.S. with enrollment applications. The “students” are registering under stolen or fabricated identities, getting accepted to schools, and then vanishing with financial aid...