Hackers are targeting students with nearly undetectable techniques
As we near the beginning of the school year, a new report was released by SecureWorks and it details troubling news: How universities are victims of a spoofing attack by the Cobalt Dickens group in Iran.
The Cobalt Dickens group is infamous for stealing intellectual property from various universities between 2013 and 2017 until being discovered and indicted by the US Department of Justice.
It was recently revealed by SecureWorks that these hackers were still active with extensive operations in effect: “researchers discovered a URL spoofing a login page for a university. Further research into the IP address hosting the spoofed page revealed a broader campaign to steal credentials. Sixteen domains contained over 300 spoofed websites and login pages for 76 universities located in 14 countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.”
