INTEL_REPORT
Ars Technica — Security · published 4/24/2026, 7:00:39 PM · TLP amber
Summary
Ingested excerpt (first ~500 chars of normalized text).
Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping. Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers. Websites for some of the world’s most prestigious universities are serving explicit porn and malicious content after scammers exploited the shoddy record-keeping of the site administrators, a researcher found recently. The sites included berkeley.edu, columbia.edu, and washu.edu, the official domains for the U…
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/why-are-top-university-websites-serving-porn-it-comes-down-to-shoddy-housekeeping
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What we pulled out
Deterministic extractor (IOC + allowlisted tokens + ATT&CK IDs present in DB).
Indicators
Linked with report → mentions → indicator. Values open the indicator workspace.
Malware families
Allowlist token matches only.
Threat actors mentioned
Allowlist mentions — not a formal attribution verdict.
ATT&CK techniques
MITRE IDs referenced in text and present in local technique table.
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Neighborhood from the first linked indicator.
| provost.washu.edu |
| Open → |
| domain | dmkcsex-10.pdf | Open → |
| url | https://causal.stat.berkeley.edu/ymy/video/xxx-porn-girl-and-boy-ej5210.html | Open → |
| url | https://conversion-dev.svc.cul.columbia.edu/brazzers-gym-porn | Open → |
| url | https://provost.washu.edu/app/uploads/formidable/6/dmkcsex-10.pdf | Open → |