Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-07-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: Newcastle University
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Newcastle University issues an alert, warning prospective students to be careful when seeking to apply and pay online for courses, after discovering the existence of a sophisticated phishing scam.