{"id":12785,"date":"2019-03-14T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=12785"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:32","slug":"report-top-universities-in-u-s-targeted-by-chinese-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/14\/report-top-universities-in-u-s-targeted-by-chinese-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Top universities in U.S. targeted by Chinese hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640.jpg\" alt=\"man at computer viewed through a magnifying glass\" class=\"wp-image-7982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640-125x83.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/window-hand-magnifying-glass-search-1231892\/\">(geralt\/Pixabay\/CC0 Creative Commons)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U-M CIO <strong>Ravi Pendse<\/strong> was quoted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2019\/03\/06\/report-top-universities-us-targeted-chinese-hackers\">recent article<\/a> about how new cybersecurity intelligence suggests that Chinese hackers are ramping up their efforts to steal military research secrets from U.S. universities.  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a report in &#8220;The Wall Street Journal,&#8221;  Chinese hackers targeted institutions and researchers with expertise in undersea technology as part of a coordinated cybercampaign that began in April 2017. China is not the first country to target U.S. universities. Last year nine Iranian hackers were charged for their role in a phishing scam that attempted to steal the passwords of hundreds of thousands of professors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pendse said he was not surprised to hear about the cyberattacks. &#8220;This has been going on for a while. The national state actors might change. But work going on at U.S. institutions will always be of interest to someone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U-M CIO Ravi Pendse was quoted in a recent article about how new cybersecurity intelligence suggests that Chinese hackers are ramping up their efforts to steal military research secrets from U.S. universities. According to a report in &#8220;The Wall Street Journal,&#8221; Chinese hackers targeted institutions and researchers with expertise in undersea technology as part of a coordinated cybercampaign\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/14\/report-top-universities-in-u-s-targeted-by-chinese-hackers\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[16,488,122],"class_list":["post-12785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-safe-computing","tag-cio","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacking"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640.jpg",640,426,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640.jpg",640,426,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640.jpg",600,399,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640.jpg",640,426,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640.jpg",640,426,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640-640x300.jpg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640.jpg",640,426,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/window-1231892_640.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"U-M CIO Ravi Pendse was quoted in a recent article about how new cybersecurity intelligence suggests that Chinese hackers are ramping up their efforts to steal military research secrets from U.S. universities. 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