Searching for school supplies online exposes students to a wide range of malware, researchers found researchers of Kaspersky Lab, 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 free can hide many dangers, since the demand has already been detected by hackers and they will try to lure you to download and run it. software those that will hide malware, trojans or 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 manual 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 search for educational materials using the internet, watch the websites you use, pay close attention to torrents, always keep your antivirus software up to date and always keep in touch with people who send you email attachments, to confirm that they are actually the senders.
