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York University breach exposed personal information dating to 2007

York University breach exposed personal information dating to 2007

York University in Toronto has confirmed that a threat actor breached its systems and accessed personal information submitted through online forms. The unauthorized access was discovered on October 25 and affected forms submitted on 14 university websites between 2007 and 2026. York University is a major university based in Toronto, Canada, with more than 55,700 students across 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, and an administrative staff of 7,000. “York was recently subject to a cybersecurity incident involving an unauthorized actor accessing
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UK school estate hit by 3AM ransomware in suspected AI-assisted attack

UK school estate hit by 3AM ransomware in suspected AI-assisted attack

A 3AM ransomware affiliate targeted a school estate in the UK and successfully encrypted around 37 of nearly 50 machines reached from an unmanaged host. Researchers at cybersecurity company Bitdefender believe the threat actor may have used AI-generated commands and an automated agentic loop to carry out the operation. The conclusion is based on a sequence of repeated commands that were slightly modified at each attempt and issued at roughly regular intervals of 40 to 100 seconds. "We were not
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UNM Health ransomware attack disrupts patient care, surgeries

UNM Health ransomware attack disrupts patient care, surgeries

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center disclosed a cyberattack that caused system outages and disrupted patient care and academic activities. On Monday, UNM Health, the university’s healthcare provider, began temporarily limiting new patient admissions, diverting ambulances to nearby hospitals, and suspending outpatient surgeries and appointments. In an update on the incident, UNM said UNM Hospital and Sandoval Regional Medical Center remain open, and all clinics will resume scheduled appointments and procedures starting today, Tuesday, October 27. Regarding emergencies
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University of Copenhagen data breach exposes data of 525,000 people

University of Copenhagen data breach exposes data of 525,000 people

The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people. The educational organization detected the breach last Tuesday and disclosed it on Friday. In an update yesterday, the university added another 20,000 staff and students whose PIN codes were exposed. “The University of Copenhagen has confirmed a cyber attack in which hackers gained access to one of the university’s test environments,” the university says. Founded in 1479, the
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AI-powered attack exploited PaperCut flaws to hack 395 organizations

AI-powered attack exploited PaperCut flaws to hack 395 organizations

A threat actor, likely Russian-speaking, used hundreds of AI agents to develop and launch a global exploitation campaign targeting vulnerable PaperCut NG/MF servers. The agents were tasked with building, testing, and refining exploits for CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, both security flaws affecting PaperCut Software and flagged as actively exploited earlier this month. Attack and threat intelligence company GreyNoise says the campaign began on August 31, combining OpenAI’s Codex and DeepSeek models with commodity offensive tools. The AI agents also generated target lists through
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Hackers exploit Roundcube flaw to spy on academic researchers

Hackers exploit Roundcube flaw to spy on academic researchers

A China-linked threat cluster has been exploiting vulnerable Roundcube servers at U.S. and Canadian universities to steal credentials and deploy backdoor malware. The campaign has been observed since May and focuses on physics and engineering departments, administrators and professors, as well as organizations involved in astrophysics, particle physics, or national security-related research. Researchers at cybersecurity company
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OpenAI confirms security breach in TanStack supply chain attack

OpenAI confirms security breach in TanStack supply chain attack

OpenAI says two employees' devices were breached in the recent TanStack supply chain attack that impacted hundreds of npm and PyPI packages, causing the company to rotate code-signing certificates for its applications as a precaution. In a security advisory published today, the company said the incident did not impact customer data, production systems, intellectual property
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Data breach at edtech giant McGraw Hill affects 13.5 million accounts

Data breach at edtech giant McGraw Hill affects 13.5 million accounts

The ShinyHunters extortion group has leaked data from 13.5 million McGraw Hill user accounts, stolen after breaching the company's Salesforce environment earlier this month. Founded in 1909, McGraw Hill is a leading global educational publisher with annual revenue of $2.2 billion, which provides education content and solutions for PreK–12, higher education, and professional learning. The
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Spain’s Ministry of Science shuts down systems after breach claims

Spain's Ministry of Science (Ministerio de Ciencia) announced a partial shutdown of its IT systems, affecting several citizen- and company-facing services. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades is the Spanish government body responsible for science policy, research, innovation, and higher education. Among others, it maintains administrative systems used by researchers, universities, and students that handle high-value
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