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Five Eyes Nations: Warn of Russian Cyber Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure
(thehackernews.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2022
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Everything you do is probably always an ulterior motive for your country, rest assured that every state makes money on it for everything you produce. Now it may be that the "phishing" that hit your university may actually be an isolated thing, but it may be hiding behind a plan that probably no one can know about.
I just learned that we do have at least one government grant that could mean sensitive information going through our systems. It's fully a defensive/hardening grant, but it could still make us a target.
You may have discovered one of the possible reasons why they attempted phishing. And I can confirm that most universities, as well as private companies, work with their country's government... So I'm not even surprised.