Friday, 24 March, 2023

1,000 Indian schools, colleges targeted by cyberattacks in Jun-Sep

<p>Over 1,000 schools and colleges in India were targeted by hackers between June and Sep, claimed Barracuda Networks. Education institutes, mostly conducting online classes using VC, were targetted by spear-phishing attacks -- a personalised attack that targets a specific firm or individual. 57% of malicious emails were sent using compromised internal accounts. Further, 86% of all business email compromise attacks were carried out via Gmail accounts.</p>