Searching for school supplies online is exposing students to a wide range malware, as Kaspersky Lab researchers found, after analyzing data collected during the 2018-2019 school year.
With the return to the school desks the students as well as the parents they will look online for lysaries, extra aids, extra skill exercises, etc. All of these are available in bookstores for a fee of course, but some will definitely search the internet in an effort to save some money.
But it is free μπορεί να κρύβει πολλούς κινδύνους, αφού η ζήτηση έχει ήδη εντοπιστεί από τους hackers και θα προσπαθήσουν να σας δελεάσουν να κατεβάσετε και να τρέξετε το λογισμικό τους που μέσα θα κρύβει malware, trojans ή ransomware.
We are not exaggerating, nor are we generalizing. The news comes from the company Kaspersky Lab, which after a careful examination of attacks that use documents with built-in malware and related to education, found that in the academic year 2018-2019 over 356.000 fraud attempts were made, which were stopped by the virus protection program.
According to Kaspersky, of all these attacks about a third were manuals, and more than 30.000 users tried to open these files. Of all the types of malicious books, the hackers focused on English, mathematics and literature.
If you want to look for a teacher material using the internet, be careful about the websites you use, be especially careful about torrents, always keep your anti-virus software up to date and always contact people who send you email attachments to confirm they are genuine the senders.
