Ransomware attacks against higher ed increase

Image:  “You can collect that money in a couple of hours,” a ransomware hacker’s representative wrote in a secure June 2020 chat with a University of California, San Francisco, negotiator about the $3 million ransom demanded. “You need to take us seriously. If we’ll release on our blog student records/data, I’m 100% sure you will lose more than our price what we ask.” The university later paid $1.14 million to gain access to the decryption key. Colleges and universities worldwide...