Lone hacker Rasputin breaches 60 universities, federal agencies | #CyberSecurity | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
Rasputin has danced around the defenses of organizations from NYU and Oxford to the Oklahoma state government.

 

Rasputin, believed to be a Russian hacker, is most well-known for the December 2016 attack against the US Electoral Assistance Commission through an unpatched SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability.

 

At the time, the hacker offered to sell access to the system to a Middle Eastern broker, and according to researchers, the hacker is also attempting to sell access to systems he has compromised in his latest round of attacks.

Rasputin's latest victims, revealed by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, span across both the United Kingdom and the United States.

 

Universities are a top target, with Cornell University, the New York University (NYU), Purdue University, Michigan State University, the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Washington among those affected in the US.

 

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