Report
Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
Administrators
General Resources
Cyber Threats to K-12 Remote Learning
31 May 2022
Published in December 2020, this report by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) details how cyber actors are targeting school computer systems, slowing access, and rendering the systems inaccessible to basic functions, including remote learning. In some instances, ransomware actors stole and threatened to leak confidential student data unless institutions paid a ransom.