The Hard Lessons Learned by Analyzing Education Sector Cyberattacks

LevelBlue SpiderLabs analysis of education-sector telemetry found credential access (notably brute-force), execution (PowerShell, user execution, WMI), and phishing-driven initial access as the most common TTPs; the report includes a University of Sydney breach on 18 Dec 2025 that exposed ~27,500 records via a compromised code repository (likely GitHub) and recommends mitigations such as encrypting backups, repository audits and secret scanning, network segmentation, continuous threat hunting, and regular penetration testing.