The Hard Lessons Learned by Analyzing Education Sector Cyberattacks

LevelBlue SpiderLabs' Q4 2025 analysis of the education sector finds credential access (notably brute-force), execution (scripting, user execution, WMI), and initial access (primarily phishing) as the top tactics; it includes a University of Sydney breach exposing ~27,500 historical records from a code repository (likely GitHub) and provides MITRE-mapped TTPs and operational mitigations such as encryption, secret scanning, segmentation, monitoring, and penetration testing.