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Of confirmed data breaches examined by Verizon, 1,780 incidents (17%) were attacks against the education system, with 1,537 (14%) confirmed data disclosure.

3/1/2025
Data breachEducation

According to the Malwarebytes report, 43% of all ransomware in education attacks in 2023 targeted higher education and 36% of attacks targeted K-12.

3/1/2025
RansomwareEducation

HTML attachments make up 82% of malicious email attachments in the education sector

3/1/2025
PhishingEducation

According to the United Kingdom’s Department of Science Innovation and Technology 2024 Cybersecurity Breaches Survey, 43% of higher education institutions in the UK reported experiencing a breach or cyberattack at least once a week.

3/1/2025
Data breachCyber attackEducation

A hacker breached Mobile Guardian in August 2024 and remotely wiped data from at least 13,000 students’ iPads and Chromebooks.

3/1/2025
Data lossEducation

Microsoft Threat Intelligence blocked more than 15,000 quishing (QR Code Phishing) emails per day to the education sector over the past year.

3/1/2025
QuishingEducation

KnowBe4's 2024 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report found that in the education sector specifically, the baseline PPP (Phish Prone Percentage) for small organisations (1-249 employees) was 33.4%.

3/1/2025
PhishingEducation

For medium sized organisations, the average Phish Prone Percentage PPP after one year of sustained training dropped to 5.2%.

3/1/2025
PhishingEducationTraining

After one year or more of sustained training, the average Phish Prone Percentage (PPP) for small institutions dropped dramatically to 3.9%.

3/1/2025
PhishingEducationTraining

In 2023, Trustwave researchers monitored 352 ransomware claims against educational institutions.

3/1/2025
RansomwareEducation

The median time for users to fall for phishing emails is less than 60 seconds.

3/1/2025
Phishing

More than 20% of users identified and reported phishing per engagement, including 11% of the users who did click the email.

3/1/2025
Phishing

After 90 days of training and simulated phishing tests, the Phish Prone Percentages (PPPs) for the education sector reduced to 19%, 19.4%, and 18% respectively for small, medium, and large organisations.

3/1/2025
PhishingEducationTraining

Check Point Research placed the average number of weekly cyberattacks on educational institutions at 3,574 in 2024, a 75% increase from the previous year.

3/1/2025
Cyber attackEducation

For large educational institutions with more than 1,000 employees the baseline Phish Prone Percentage (PPP) was 31.7%.

3/1/2025
PhishingEducation

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