Education's combination of high-value data, sophisticated threats, and operational complexity makes cybersecurity risk ...

The education sector is facing a growing and multiplying menace: a surge in cyberattacks by ransomware groups that are leveraging generative artificial intelligence and other sophisticated tools.

Threat actors with the ransomware gang Akira listed the Renton school district on their leak site in August 2023, with a threat to leak 200 gigabytes of stolen records, including medical information.

(TNS) — The Minersville School District on Wednesday continued to investigate a ransomware attack that forced it to close schools for three days so far and left the district unable to access some of ...

Four days after an attack by a notorious ransomware gang disrupted the Minneapolis, Minnesota, school district’s computer network, accessing reams of students’ and educators’ sensitive information, ...

In its 2024 threat assessment report, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security declared K-12 school districts “a near constant ransomware target.” The report attributed this alarming trend to budget ...

After Jefferson Joint School District #251 detected ransomware on their computer network on Feb. 3, the district has made the decision to cancel classes on Feb. 6, and release students an hour early ...

In an era where data breaches and ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly common, Google is taking significant steps to enhance security for educational institutions. With th ...

Clarification: An earlier version of this story referred to the attack as a data breach. PHM officials are referring to it as a network breach, as it is not yet clear whether any data was compromised.

JACKSON, MI – Jackson Public Schools has chosen to continue paying for cybersecurity services it obtained after a ransomware attack shut the district down three years ago. The Jackson Public Schools ...

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District is canceling school for several days this week after detecting a ransomware attack on its servers, according to a Facebook post from the district on ...

At about 6:30 in the morning on a Monday last year, Brad Stewart got a text informing him that a principal of one of Lufkin ISD’s schools couldn’t log into the system. After Stewart, the chief ...