Cyberattacks have reportedly increased in educational institutions throughout the globe, with Israel leading in being the largest target of such attacks, according to research by Check Point Software Technologies.
Israeli educational institutions received a 51% increase in attacks by early August, as opposed to an average of 29% global, according to the research. The education sector has been attacked on average more than 4,000 times per week.
To combat these cyberattacks, researchers have developed a monitoring system called ThreatCloud, which stops the attacks in real-time.
A blog published by Check Point analyzed the trends of the rise of such cyberattacks. The main findings found Israel, Australia, Turkey, Italy and India as the most affected countries by school cyberattacks.
Other results concluded that the increase is due to students returning to school and the rapid transition to online learning.