Third-Party Breaches Teach Education Sector a Costly Lesson in Vendor Risk
Rising threats from third-party actors are forcing institutions to play defense to protect student data from ransomware and other attacks.
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Rising threats from third-party actors are forcing institutions to play defense to protect student data from ransomware and other attacks.
Ransomware and vendor breaches persist. The "2026 Data Breach Investigations Report" (DBIR) highlights how evolving social engineering tactics make the sector more vulnerable.
The network security vendor said the MySonicWall breach was unrelated to the recent wave of Akira ransomware attacks targeting the company's devices.
An uptick of ransomware activity by the group in late July that uses the vendor's SSL VPN devices for initial intrusion shows evidence of an as-yet-undisclosed flaw under exploitation.
The vendor's products fall in a category that ransomware operators like to target to circumvent victims' ability to recover from a successful attack.
The cybercriminal group holding the stolen information is demanding the vendor admit to the breach and pay up.
BlackCat/ALPHV claims it has had access to the payments technology vendor's systems since September, and threatens follow-on attacks on its customer Roblox.
Fawry confirms addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth, leaked online.
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Bronze Starlight’s use of multiple ransomware families and its victim-targeting suggest there’s more to the group’s activities than just financial gain, security vendor says.
Most of the attacks involve the use of automated exploits, security vendor says.