With rising chances of having their data encrypted or backups compromised, higher education institutions are paying more than initial demands to recover their systems.

More than a month after sustaining a ransomware attack, New Jersey City University leaders have notified their students of the cyberattack.

A new report from the firm Zscaler shows that ransomware attacks are growing fastest in the health care and education sectors.

The university told students, staff, and faculty that it had suffered a cyberintrusion on Sunday.

The new Center for Health Care Cybersecurity aims to identify early indicators of cybersecurity threats by studying simulated attacks.

Hawaii Community College paid an undisclosed sum to a ransomware group after it stole the personal information of 28,000 people.

Most colleges and universities use phishing protection but don't have it configured for maximum safety, according to a recent survey.

As financially motivated attacks get easier to carry out, more universities are entering entering the crosshairs, CrowdStrike says.

Napa Valley College, a community college in Northern California, has been struggling with a ransomware attack for more than two weeks.

VPN credentials and other account data from a "multitude" of schools are available for sale on cybercrime forums, according to an FBI alert.