{"id":13526,"date":"2026-06-11T02:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/why-schools-remain-one-of-cybercriminals-favourite-targets\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:03:26","slug":"why-schools-remain-one-of-cybercriminals-favourite-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/why-schools-remain-one-of-cybercriminals-favourite-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Why schools remain one of cybercriminals\u2019 favourite targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Why schools remain one of cybercriminals\u2019 favourite targets<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Schools on both sides of the Atlantic have been revealed in recent days to have been hit by hackers, reminding all of us that ransomware gangs see educational instituions as targets all year round.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/why-schools-remain-one-of-cybercriminals-favourite-targets\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why schools remain one of cybercriminals\u2019 favourite targets Schools on both sides of the Atlantic have been revealed in recent days to have been hit by hackers, reminding all of us that ransomware gangs see educational instituions as targets all year round. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,154,54,155,83,231,613],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-13526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-privacy","category-ransomware","category-school","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}