Cyber Attacks Against Schools and Colleges

## Executive summary This report outlines the rapidly increasing cyber threats facing schools, colleges, and universities—highlighting a surge in ransomware and data-exfiltration incidents (linked in part to the MOVEit CVE-2023-34362 exploit), profiling several high-impact breaches and ransomware incidents affecting hundreds to millions of records, and providing recommended defensive measures such as 24×7 monitoring, MFA, staff training, and incident response planning.