An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login...
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The ed-tech giant behind the Canvas learning management system is working with forensic experts to determine the full scope of the incident, though it seems passwords and financial information were not compromised. … According to a May 2 update...
Cyber attacks on education institutions rose 63% globally over the past year, according to Quorum Cyber, which recorded 425 incidents across 67 countries in the latest 12-month period. The figures come from Quorum Cyber’s Global Cyber Risk Outlook...
Over 200,000 files containing sensitive personal information have been leaked following the University of Warsaw cyberattack that targeted the institution’s digital systems. The attack, which resulted in the publication of the stolen data on the darknet...
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...