19 August 2026 - 18:32

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US charges seventeen university hackers

The US has charged seventeen Iranian hackers for hitting hundreds of global universities. I am sure ten-million-dollar bounties will magically fix the networks.

US charges seventeen university hackers

Source: SecurityWeek

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Here we go again with the Mabna Institute, whose seventeen members spent their time raiding hundreds of universities and organisations across the US and abroad. The US government responded by issuing charges and dangling ten million dollars for five of them, because legal paperwork always terrifies state-backed crews. Securing our beleaguered higher education networks against these relentless intrusion campaigns would be wonderful, but we will probably just get another advisory to ignore.

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