While overall ransomware attack numbers remained steady, higher education institutions drove a sharp rise in exposed records, fueled in part by third-party software vulnerabilities.

Lincoln College is scheduled to close its doors Friday, becoming the first U.S. institution of higher learning to shut down in part due to a ransomware attack. A goodbye note posted to the school’s ...

(TNS) — Whitworth University is taking steps to shore up its cyber defenses following a reported ransomware attack that has left the university's network crippled since late last month. Describing the ...

Notorious ransomware gang ‘Akira’ listed Stanford University on the darknet as the target of a ransomware attack on Friday morning. Screenshots of the listing were shared on other parts of the ...

SPOKANE, Wash - A student at Whitworth University in Spokane says the university should have done more to protect student and staff personal information and should pay for a ransomware data breach ...

New Jersey City University’s computer network was struck by a cyberattack by a ransomware group that is threatening to release sensitive personal data of students and staff if it doesn’t receive ...

Ransomware isn’t slowing down – it’s accelerating.

An alleged ransomware attack has taken down the systems of the Sapienza University of Rome.

Georgetown University urged community members to take precautions against potential network breaches Sept. 9 after Howard University fell victim to a ransomware cyberattack that forced the college to ...

The university’s response was dramatic: it disconnected all 14,000 students and 4,700 staff from the internet for an entire week. That decision, taken within hours of detecting the breach, prevented ...

Rome's "La Sapienza" university has been targeted by a cyberattack that impacted its IT systems and caused widespread ...