Threats Plague Educational Organizations

This Huntress report details active and observed cyber threats against the education sector, noting that education comprised 21% of incidents in 2024 and highlighting concrete cases: an RDP brute-force intrusion exposing a domain controller, an MSP-targeted Atera RMM compromise used to deploy AnyDesk and create a persistent local admin account, and an attempted data exfiltration using RClone; it also summarizes prevalent threat types (malicious scripts, Chromeloader infostealers, ransomware) and the detection and remediation actions Huntress applied.