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Silent Librarian Goes Back to School with Global Research-Stealing Effort

The Silent Librarian campaign has re-emerged for the fall school session, targeting students and faculty at universities via spear-phishing campaigns. Targets stretch across a dozen countries and so far have included: The University of Adelaide in Australia; Glasgow Caledonian, University of Kent,. University of York, King s College London, Cambridge and others in the U.K.; the University of Toronto and McGill in Canada. The attackers revamped their landing pages with new university-specific banners, based on weather alerts or emergency notifications, to make them more authentic.

Source: https://threatpost.com/silent-librarian-school-research-stealing/160099/

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