Education — threat intelligence
Recent advisories whose title or summary heuristically matches the Education sector. Derived in-browser/at-edge from a keyword catalog — treat tags as a hint and open each source for ground truth. Counts and contents update hourly.
9 recent Education advisories
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New GPUThor Rowhammer Defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A6000 to Gain Host Root Access
Academic researchers have disclosed a Rowhammer attack impacting NVIDIA workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory that defeats error correction codes (ECC), the mitigation NVIDIA recommends against GPU Rowhammer, and enables denial-of-service (DoS…
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Popular school apps may be sharing student data with advertisers
A Utah investigation found educational apps collecting unauthorized student data and sharing information with third parties and advertisers.
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Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated an attack that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale (POS) terminal reads over nea…
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US charges Iranians for sprawling hacking campaign on government agencies, universities
The Justice Department accused 17 alleged hackers with ties to the Iranian government of breaching email accounts at U.S. government agencies and stealing intellectual property from dozens of universities.
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US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers, Offers $10 Million Rewards for 5 of Them
The 17 members of the Mabna Institute targeted hundreds of universities and organizations in the US and abroad. The post US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers, Offers $10 Million Rewards for 5 of Them appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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University of Texas forced to take systems offline in San Antonio after cyberattack
The University of Texas at San Antonio, which serves 40,000 students across six campuses, said its IT team identified threat activity on its academic campus over the weekend and took some systems, including phones, offline in response.
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Education Under Attack: The Pattern Behind Recent University Breaches
Four university breaches, one root cause: misconfiguration. See the pattern behind 2026's higher ed cyberattacks and how to fix the gap.
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CISA Unveils New Cybersecurity Resources for K-12 Schools and Districts
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A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices
A malicious SIM card can order the device it sits in to run commands of the attacker's choosing. On the cellular modules built into electric-vehicle chargers, industrial routers, and car telematics units, that is enough to take the whole de…
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