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Education Now Suffers The Most Ransomware Attacks

September 22, 2016

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When you think ransomware victim, most likely your first thought is a hospital. But a new survey of ransomware’s spread among different industry sectors shows that education is actually the biggest target right now.

BitSight, which rates the security posture of organizations based on external data showing malicious activity surrounding them, in a new report today found that education is hit most by ransomware attacks, followed by government, healthcare, energy/utilities, retail, and finance.

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