Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-06-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: Stanford University Subdomain
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: For almost four months, one of Stanford's subdomains (Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Stanford University) has been compromised and used for hosting web shells, mailers, and other types of web malware.