Tag: Education
New cyber threat from North Korea
Microsoft has identified a new North Korean threat actor, Moonstone Sleet. Also known as Storm-1789, Moonstone Sleet has set up fake companies and job opportunities to engage with potential targets and has even created a fully functioning computer game designed to trap the unwary. The potentially hostile nation-state of North Korea has long been suspected of resorting to cybercrime, targeting the West to fund its military build-up and commit ongoing cyber espionage against countries such as the US and the UK. But Moonstone Sleet is taking cyber-attacks on the West to new levels of sophistication, posing a threat to all organizations. Microsoft says Moonstone Sleet “uses both a combination of many tried-and-true techniques used by other North Korean threat actors and unique attack methodologies to target companies for its financial and cyberespionage objectives.”
Cyber Consultant Claims Universities are More Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks – April 8th
Highlighting the severity of the University of Winnipeg data breach, Cybersecurity consultant Kathy Knight asserts that the education sector is one of the most vulnerable to cyber attacks, potentially leading to significant data loss and privacy breaches. “The thing about universities is they’re very big, complex institutions … and they collect a lot of information and data that is very attractive to cyber criminals. So that puts them really, at the top of the list, in terms of attack targets,” she said.