An alert issued by the FBI Thursday warns higher education institutions that cybersecurity agents have identified U.S. college and university credentials are being advertised for sale on “dark web” criminal marketplaces and on publicly accessible internet forums. “As of January 2022, Russian cyber criminal forums offered for sale or posted for public access the network credentials and virtual private network accesses to a multitude of identified U.S.-based universities and colleges across the country, some of which included screenshots as proof of access,” the alert states. “Sites posting credentials for sale typically listed prices varying from a few to multiple thousands of U.S. dollars.”
