A wave of cyberattacks on British academic blogs has raised concerns over alleged efforts by authoritarian regimes to shut down research into human rights abuses. Just one hour after a post about Roshaan Khattak, an exiled Pakistani scholar who was based...
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The threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed using spear-phishing lures to target academic institutions in India, expanding their strategic focus beyond government entities. “SideCopy campaign operations typically initiate through spear...
Germany’s Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich is investigating a cyberattack in which an unknown hacker accessed a system containing sensitive student information, including potential health insurance and financial aid data. The university, commonly...
No ransoms were paid to hackers during the cyberattacks that hit the University of Mississippi Medical Center or Institutes of Higher Learning this year, officials confirmed to Mississippi Today. “No state taxpayer dollars were used” to pay the...
On September 7, 2026, the ransomware group TheGentlemen publicly claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against University of San Francisco (usfca.edu), a prestigious Jesuit institution in the USA. The group issued a statement threatening to release...