Infoblox exposes how co-ordinated phishing campaign utilises‘ Evilginx’ to target American Universities
University of Kent enhances digital resilience and data availability with Hitachi Vantara data platform
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Infoblox exposes how co-ordinated phishing campaign utilises‘ Evilginx’ to target American Universities
I nfoblox Threat Intel has uncovered a co-ordinated phishing campaign targeting at least 18 US universities, powered by the widely used‘ Evilginx’ toolkit.
Evilginx is an open-source advanced phishing framework that uses‘ adversary-in-the-middle’( AiTM) tactics to steal login credentials and session cookies, allowing it to bypass multi-factor authentication on campus portals.
The top five universities targeted were the University of California Santa Cruz, the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of San Diego, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Michigan. the systems they lock down,” said Renée Burton, Vice President of Infoblox Threat Intel.
The investigation began when a security practitioner at a targeted institution reported suspicious login activity, prompting Infoblox to examine DNS patterns associated with the attack. That community tip enabled researchers to connect the dots across multiple highereducation environments and map a campaign that had been operating largely undetected for months.
“ In one particularly sad case, attackers infiltrated the University of Washington and compromised the Burke Museum of Natural History’ s systems. Their actions ultimately destroyed part of the museum’ s digital catalogue of plant and animal specimens – an invaluable record, built through years of voluntary effort, preserving knowledge of extinct and endangered species.”
“ Universities remain a common target for malicious actors, who show little concern for the damage they cause or the value of
Infoblox continues to monitor the infrastructure as the actor evolves its toolkit and target profile.
University of Kent enhances digital resilience and data availability with Hitachi Vantara data platform
he University of Kent, a university in the UK, has partnered with Hitachi Vantara and Trustmarque to deploy a modern
T storage architecture that enhances service continuity, strengthens cybersecurity and supports the university’ s 17,000 students and research community.
With its existing storage approaching end-of-life, the University of Kent required a modern and resilient data storage solution. The
university delivers approximately 300 applications to support its students and faculty, in addition to specialist IT infrastructure for advanced scientific research.
With the National Cyber Security Centre revealing that the UK faces four nationally significant cyberattacks every week, the university needed an active architecture to reduce cyber-risk and ensure service continuity in the event of disaster.
The University of Kent selected Hitachi Vantara’ s Virtual Storage Platform One, delivered by its long-standing partner Trustmarque, to provide robust, high-performance, scalable block storage for its key digital services. The project coincided with the university’ s broader Digital Transformation, including the development of three modern data centres.
“ Working with Hitachi Vantara and Trustmarque has provided a seamless transition to our new system, which is already providing measurable results. For example, we can backup user files around 95 % faster than before,” said Darren Chapman, Infrastructure Development Manager, University of Kent.
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