The education sector reported the highest level of ransomware attacks in 2022, with 79 percent of higher education organizations surveyed and 80 percent of lower education organizations surveyed reporting that they were victims of ransomware, according to research from cybersecurity provider Sophos.
The “State of Ransomware 2023” report found that in 76 percent of ransomware attacks against surveyed organizations, adversaries succeeded in encrypting data. This is the highest rate of data encryption from ransomware since Sophos started issuing the report in 2020.
