The education sector got hit with even more ransomware attacks in 2021, impacting almost two-thirds of higher education organizations, Sophos concluded in a new survey. Ransomware attacks hit more than half of the lower-education organizations surveyed and almost two-thirds of higher education institutions. This marks a jump from the 44% of respondents combined across lower and higher education that reported ransomware attacks in 2020, but it’s consistent with an upward trend in ransomware attacks across all sectors.
