On August 13, 2024, Copiah-Lincoln Community College (“Copiah-Lincoln”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine after discovering that an unauthorized party was able to access confidential information in the school’s possession...
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Researchers have uncovered a previously unseen backdoor which was used in an attack on a university in Taiwan. To infect their victims, the malware operators likely exploited a recently patched PHP vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-4577, according to...
Since unauthorised access to Western Sydney University’s IT network was discovered in January 2024, the University has been undertaking forensic investigations in line with our due diligence and legal obligations to determine the full nature, scope and...
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting university staff, researchers, and professors for intelligence gathering purposes. Cybersecurity firm Resilience said it identified the activity in...
New Jersey City University, a public school that enrolls 6,500 students, has been hit by ransomware and has until Saturday to pay $700,000 in bitcoin or risk having its sensitive data published online. The cyberattack occurred between June 4 and June 10...