Higher education institutions are the new battleground for cryptomining-related hacking, according to a newly published report from security firm Vectra Networks Inc. Detailed in Vectra’s 2018 RSA Conference Edition of its Attacker Behavior Industry Report and based on data from 4.5 million devices across 246 opt-in enterprise customers, a whopping 60 percent of all cryptomining software detections occurred in higher education networks, followed well behind by entertainment and leisure on 6 percent, financial services and technology on 3 percent each and healthcare at 2 percent.

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