The university discovered the intrusion by an unauthorized third party on the day after it first occurred, but only realized data had been breached through a report from outside security investigators on July 31.
Researchers have linked a newly discovered downloader malware to the Necurs botnet, after it was observed in a large email spam campaign targeting mostly financial organizations.
A Nigerian citizen last week was convicted in a Georgia federal court for his involvement in a $6 million phishing scheme targeting college and university staff members.
A recently developed methodology for identifying Twitter bot accounts in large quantities has turned up a cryptocurrency scam botnet operation that leverages at least 15,000 bots to submit bogus tweets and likes.
A hacking group apparently based in Pakistan has been straddling the fence between cybercriminal activity and nation-state espionage, leveraging the same malicious infrastructure to both launch email spam campaigns and target government agencies in U.S., UK, Russia and Spain.
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