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It says it all, why would someone do it? 

I try to understand the point of it,but I just don't get it..

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Based on the wildly informative OP, if I was forced to guess I would imagine that they are/were after the personal information of the students and staff. There's potential to get a lot of info from one source. 

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1 minute ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Based on the wildly informative OP, if I was forced to guess I would imagine that they are/were after the personal information of the students and staff. There's potential to get a lot of info from one source. 

What use would they have from those though?

And why would they bother to plant malwares in the university machines which only have for purpose to attack the routers of the university network?

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8 minutes ago, laminutederire said:

What use would they have from those though?

And why would they bother to plant malwares in the university machines which only have for purpose to attack the routers of the university network?

No idea but...To get personal information to sell, to test them selves, for fun, to test their software on a target to see how it works in the wild.

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If they can hit a university with ransomware, they could conceivably hold them for a lot of money unless the university has competent IT and good backups.  Just think of all the research work, etc. that would be lost otherwise.

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1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

If they can hit a university with ransomware, they could conceivably hold them for a lot of money unless the university has competent IT and good backups.  Just think of all the research work, etc. that would be lost otherwise.

Like so, 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/university-calgary-ransomware-cyberattack-1.3620979

                                                                                   

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6 hours ago, laminutederire said:

What use would they have from those though?

And why would they bother to plant malwares in the university machines which only have for purpose to attack the routers of the university network?

Visa, accounts, etc. 

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11 hours ago, laminutederire said:

It says it all, why would someone do it? 

I try to understand the point of it,but I just don't get it..

They could be using it in order to use them as a jumping point to get to more important places. The uni may be linked to a bigger uni, which could then be linked to federal agencies, which could then be linked to the Pentagon. Or they could be doing it for fun.

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Same reason half of Russia and Ukraine are trying to hack my blog. Botnet.

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3 hours ago, laminutederire said:

Yeah so total loss of faith in humanity then?

No, Just theft for profit. Robbery has been going on for nearly as long as our species.

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7 hours ago, revsilverspine said:

Same reason half of Russia and Ukraine are trying to hack my blog. Botnet.

We traced back the attack to two ip adress from Russia and one from Ukraine.. 

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4 hours ago, laminutederire said:

We traced back the attack to two ip adress from Russia and one from Ukraine.. 

I have like 12000 IPs with at least 2-300 logged attacks from the past 23 months. whoppee!

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1 hour ago, revsilverspine said:

I have like 12000 IPs with at least 2-300 logged attacks from the past 23 months. whoppee!

What would you do if there is a suspicion of a malware propagating through the network and onto your machine?

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6 hours ago, laminutederire said:

What would you do if there is a suspicion of a malware propagating through the network and onto your machine?

since I don't host the server, I don't really care.

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On 07/06/2016 at 11:38 PM, Ryan_Vickers said:

...unless the university has competent IT and good backups.

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To either sell the data or threaten to sell the data so the university pays them not to do it

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7 minutes ago, Minibois said:

To either sell the data or threaten to sell the data so the university pays them not to do it

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