Last school year, 808 K-12 school organizations got some unwelcome news. The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) told them their staff accounts or credentials were circulating on underground and dark web marketplaces. That’s 808 of the center’s 6,116 K-12 members, and attackers are using those logins to get in the door and then reach the next district.
Stolen staff logins are spreading attacks between K-12 school districts
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