Cyber attacks on education institutions rose 63% globally over the past year, according to Quorum Cyber, which recorded 425 incidents across 67 countries in the latest 12-month period.
The figures come from Quorum Cyber’s Global Cyber Risk Outlook for Higher Education, which tracked attacks between November 2024 and October 2025 and compared them with the previous 12 months. Incidents rose from 260 to 425, with increases in data breaches, hacktivist activity and ransomware.
Data breaches increased 73% and hacktivist activity rose 75%. Ransomware incidents were up 21%, indicating a threat mix that extends beyond financially motivated attacks to politically driven disruption and state-backed operations.