It is no exaggeration to say that schools have become prime targets for cybercriminals. The Department for Education’s own research shows that the education sector now faces a higher rate of cyber incidents than almost any other, with attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to data breaches that threaten the very core of safeguarding and trust.
The Virtue Technologies Cyber Team have witnessed first-hand a worrying trend where attackers are no longer just targeting staff or administrative accounts. Increasingly, it is pupil accounts that are being exploited as the initial foothold for wider attacks.
