{"id":234720,"date":"2026-04-23T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/cyber-attacks-surge-63-annually-in-education-sector\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:50:10","slug":"cyber-attacks-surge-63-annually-in-education-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/cyber-attacks-surge-63-annually-in-education-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber-Attacks Surge 63% Annually in Education Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/cyberattacks-surge-63-annually\/\">Cyber-Attacks Surge 63% Annually in Education Sector<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/cyberattacks-surge-63-annually\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/cyberattacks-surge-63-annually\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-23 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.infosecurity-magazine.com\">www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schools and universities\u00a0across the globe experienced a sharp increase in attacks last year thanks to the combined threat from geopolitical tensions, ransomware and hacktivism, according to Quorum Cyber.<\/p>\n<p>The security service provider\u2019s 2026 Global Cyber Risk Outlook for Higher Education is compiled from FalconFeeds.io threat intelligence data covering the period November 2023 to October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It revealed that total recorded incidents increased 63%, from 260 attacks between November 2023-October 2024 to 425 in the period\u00a0November 2024-October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Across 67 countries, data breaches rose by 73%, hacktivist activity increased by 75% and ransomware went up by 21%.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on education sector threats: 73% of UK Education Sector Hit by Cyber-Attacks in Past Five Years.<\/p>\n<p>The threats come\u00a0from various sources. Universities in particular face nation-state efforts to steal high-value research materials, especially in AI, quantum computing and advanced materials, Quorum Cyber claimed.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re also facing hacktivist-related DDoS attacks, defacement and data-leak threats, including a ramping up of activity from Iranian threat actors, the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>Infostealer malware\u00a0and financially motivated ransomware were a persistent threat over the period, with FunkSec (23%), Cl0p (10%), INC (10%) and Nova (10%) the most prolific groups.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Tackling the Threat to the Education Sector<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Quorum Cyber recommended the following mitigation measures for education institutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intelligence-led vulnerability management: using up-to-date information to prioritize vulnerabilities for patching<\/li>\n<li>Dark web monitoring: early warning for leaked credentials and third-party breaches<\/li>\n<li>Robust backups: three copies of all critical data on two devices with one stored offline in a separate location<\/li>\n<li>Incident response exercises: regular tabletop exercises to ensure plans and playbooks are fit for purpose and well understood<\/li>\n<li>Password management: strong unique passwords for all accounts,&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/cyberattacks-surge-63-annually\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber-Attacks Surge 63% Annually in Education Sector https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/cyberattacks-surge-63-annually\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-23 06:30:00 Source Domain: www.infosecurity-magazine.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.infosecurity-magazine.com\/webpage\/og\/9c7b35de-32bd-4e22-b9eb-b0ba36517dcc.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,36,32,27],"class_list":["post-234720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-infostealer","tag-malware","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234722,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234720\/revisions\/234722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}