Jonathan Greig
| August 31, 2021 — 11:37 GMT (12:37 BST)
| Topic: Security
Comparitech has released a new study on the number of ransomware attacks affecting schools, colleges and universities since 2018, finding the most amount of attacks in the country’s most populous states like Texas, New York, California and Louisiana.
Researchers Rebecca Moody and George Moody found that there have been a total of at least 222 ransomware attacks affecting 3,880 schools and colleges since 2018. They estimated that these attacks cost educational institutions billions in downtime and in ransom payments as ransomware groups targeted bigger school systems throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020 alone, Comparitech researchers tracked 77 individual ransomware attacks that affected more than 1,740 schools and colleges, “potentially impacting 1.36 million students,” according to their data.
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Jonathan Greig
| August 31, 2021 — 11:37 GMT (12:37 BST)
| Topic: Security