UK: Education Sector Faces Surge in Cyber Breaches Despite Stable National Threat Levels

The UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025/2026 reports stable overall breach rates but reveals sharp increases in cyber breaches across the public education sector (notably near-universal breaches in higher education), phishing as the most prevalent and disruptive threat, a decline in ransomware incidents, decreasing cyber hygiene among small businesses, and very low adoption of the Cyber Essentials framework.