Indicted hackers continue to target universities – Report

American universities have continued to be targeted by suspected Iranian state-sponsored hackers despite previous attacks drawing the attention of the United States Department of Justice, writes Andrew Blake for The Washington Times.

Secureworks, a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, said in a report that its researchers recently found evidence of dozens of universities in the US and abroad being eyed by Cobalt Dickens, a name given by the firm to a “likely Iranian government-directed threat group”.

Also known as Silent Librarian, the report said that members of the group are among nine Iranians indicted by the Justice Department in March 2018 for allegedly hacking into hundreds of victims, including universities, and stealing academic data and other intellectual property on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of Iran’s military.
Full report on The Washington Times site