Students at top universities at risk of fraud

Proofpoint’s new research has found that the top universities in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom are lagging on basic cyber security measures, subjecting students, staff and stakeholders to higher risks of email-based impersonation attacks.

According to Proofpoint’s analysis, universities in the United States are most at risk with the poorest levels of protection, followed by the United Kingdom, then Australia.

Conducted in May 2022 using data from QS Top Universities, the Proofpoint analysis also found that 97 per cent of the top 10 universities across each country are not taking appropriate measures to proactively block attackers from spoofing their email domains, increasing the risk of email fraud. These findings are based on domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance (DMARC) analysis of the top 10 universities in each country.

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