Harvard faces ‘active and specific cybersecurity threat’
Online actors are posing as Harvard University IT personnel and setting up phony websites, designed to look like official Harvard login pages, as part of a targeted campaign to intrude into the university’s network, The Harvard Crimson reported Friday.
Harvard Chief Information Security and Data Privacy Officer Michael Tran Duff wrote in an email to university affiliates that the institution faced “an active and specific cybersecurity threat.” He warned against engaging with anyone claiming to be from “Harvard IT” and urged everyone to remain on “high alert.”
The Crimson reported that other higher education institutions are facing similar threats, including the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School, which last week saw similar social engineering attempts to intrude on its IT systems.
