As cybercrime continues to increase day by day, this time schools are the new target of hackers. According to the latest reports, it appeared that some of the colleges and universities in the US had their VPN credentials stolen.

The claim about this was put forward by the FBI and presented along with the report. Worse, this data is about to be spied on. It is for sale on Russian cybercrime forums. reported.

Student IDs are for sale.

The FBI’s report emphasized that while it was recorded that the information was for sale, it could lead to poor results later on. Because the stolen information, other malicious It can be used for various purposes when sold to hackers.

Hackers getting their credentials, this informationI can take advantage of victims by using it on various websites and banking services† If we look to the past, we have seen that similar events have happened many times. In 2017, for example, it was revealed that cybercriminals used a different method to steal credentials by cloning university login pages.

On the other hand, this situation also happened in our country: the identity data of some university students in Turkey were stolen in various ways and put up for sale on platforms such as the Dark Web. Hackers commit a lot of cybercrime by using this stolen information in different places.