IBM Security, releasing its annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index for 2023, noted that education, sixth on the list of 10 industries analyzed, jumped from 2.8% of all incidents in 2021 to 7.3% in 2022. The company noted it changed how it examined some of its data to give a more insightful and helpful picture of cybersecurity threats. Key threat highlights in the report include backdoor activity, extortion, phishing, and hacktivism/malware. Across industries in 2022, extortion attacks accounted for 27% of incidents, deployment of backdoor access 21%, and ransomware attacks 17%.
