Education Sector Emerges as India’s Most Cyber-Attacked Industry, Accounting for Nearly 24% of Detections
India’s education sector has become the country’s most heavily targeted industry in cyberspace, accounting for nearly 24% of total detections as adversaries continue to exploit its sprawling digital footprint, open collaboration model, and uneven security maturity. Seqrite, the enterprise security arm of Quick Heal Technologies Limited, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, has raised concerns over the fact that schools, universities, training institutions and edtech platforms are increasingly operating as high-value attack surfaces for cybercriminals and espionage-linked actors alike.
The finding comes from Seqrite’s India Cyber Threat Report 2026, prepared by researchers at Seqrite Labs, India’s largest malware analysis facility, who monitored more than 8 million endpoints and recorded 265.52 million detections between October 2024 and September 2025, averaging 505 detections every minute. Education’s risk profile is shaped by the very qualities that make it digitally dynamic. Large student populations, shared networks, remote learning platforms, research repositories, and third-party...
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