A fake student resume is being used to place a remote-access tool on researchers’ Windows computers. The campaign hides a Windows executable inside an archive that appears to contain a graduate-school application, then opens a genuine Word document while...
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The University of Delhi (DU) has reportedly been hit by a ransomware group calling itself DYSPHOR1A, according to an incident report sourced from Ransomware.live via the cybersecurity platform HookPhish. The report dated the breach and its discovery to...
Between January and July 2026, educational organizations such as colleges and universities, research institutes, and K-12 school systems alike, faced an average of 4,696 weekly cyberattacks per organization, representing an 8% increase compared to the...
According to Tuesday’s statement by the DOJ, the Mabna Institute since at least 2013 and through 2017 targeted more than 100,000 accounts of professors around the world, including the successful penetration of roughly 8,000 professor email accounts...
Baptist University has said it is reviewing the security of its information technology (IT) systems after a ransomware group claimed online to have illegally accessed the Hong Kong institution’s data. The allegations were made by “The Gentlemen”, an...