Searching for online school supplies exposes them schoolchildren across a wide range of malware, Kaspersky Lab researchers found after analyzing data collected during the 2018-2019 school year.
With the return to school desks, students and parents alike will search the internet for lysaries, extra aids, additional skill exercises, etc. All of these are available in bookstores on payment of course, but some will certainly search the internet in an attempt to save some money.
But the free can hide many risks, since the demand has already been identified by hackers and they will try to entice you to download and run their software 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 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 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.
