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TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES
Stanford University has been a victim of cyber-attack that affected the systems of its Department of Public Safety (SUDPS). Akira ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack, which allegedly resulted in the exposure of 430GB of university’s data.
Check Point Harmony End Point and Threat Emulation provides protection against this threat (Ransomware_Linux_Akira; Ransomware.Wins.Akira)
Ukrainian hacktivists groups dubbed KibOrg and NLB in collaboration with the Ukraine Security Services (SBU) have breached the Russia’s largest private bank Alfa-Bank. The threat actors claimed to have obtained the private information of more than 30M clients, including full names, dates of birth, account numbers, and phone numbers.
The University of Michigan has disclosed a data breach that affected the personal information of an unverified amount of students, applicants, employees and others. The threat actors have gained access to the university servers between August 23-27, and have stolen Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, government IDs, payment card numbers, as well as healthcare information.
The University of Tokyo has experienced a data breach that impacted the personal information of students from the academic years of 2003 to 2022. The exposed data consists of more than 4K files containing addresses and grades, which were leaked as a result of malware infection that was distributed from a facu ..
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