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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What Happened</span></b></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Incident:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> On the evening of September 21, 2026, three major Elsevier web addresses—<a href="http://www.elsevier.com">www.elsevier.com</a>, <a href="http://submit.elsevier.com">submit.elsevier.com</a>, and <a href="http://evolve.elsevier.com">evolve.elsevier.com</a>—experienced a brief domain hijacking incident. [<a href="https://www.cloudskope.com/insights/post/is-sherpath-hacked-evolve-elsevier-redirect">1</a>, <a href="https://www.cloudskope.com/breaches/elsevier-lapsus-domain-hijack-2026">2</a>]</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Redirect:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> For roughly two hours, visitors to these sites were redirected to an external extortion page branded by the group LAPSUS$.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Unaffected Services:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> The main research platform, <a href="http://sciencedirect.com">sciencedirect.com</a>, was completely unaffected during the entire event.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Current Status</span></b></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Resolution:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> The unauthorized redirects were cleared by 10:09 PM CT on September 21, 2026.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Operations:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> All Elsevier domains are currently resolving normally, and no data theft or ransomware encryption has been confirmed or claimed by the attacker</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This is what students need to do:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you already entered your credentials on a suspicious page:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Do not approve any unexpected Microsoft MFA prompts.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Change your password using the Microsoft 365 login process.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you use the same password anywhere else, change it there as well.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Contact IT and let us know that your credentials may have been entered on a suspicious website.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If possible, provide a screenshot of the page and the website address you were redirected to.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">---<span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>George Larson</b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Chief Data Officer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Eastern Oklahoma State College</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">1301 W. Main St.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Wilburton, OK. 74578</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:glarson@eosc.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">glarson@eosc.edu</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">918.465.1710</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>