As kids return to school, the cyber bandits are coming out of the woodwork and turning their attention on our most vulnerable institutions - K-12 schools. Technically unsophisticated with next to no cyber training and limited budgets - these institutions are amongst the most vulnerable in our society. While not the wealthiest of targets, they often represent the low-hanging fruit of cyber victims, with little in the way of alternatives to "paying up" in hopes to of restoring their operations and getting back to the business of education...
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Is Nothing Sacred? K-12 Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise...
Last August and September, the latest data available, the FBI reported that 57 percent of known ransomware incidents involved K-12 schools. That was more than twice the number of school ransomware attacks reported in the earlier months of 2020