Searching for school aids online exposes students to a wide range of malware, researchers at Kaspersky Lab have 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 search the internet for lysaries, additional aids, additional skill exercises, etc. All of these are available in bookstores on payment of course, but some will certainly research the internet in their 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 embedded malware and related to education, found that in the 2018-2019 academic year, over 356.000 cheating attempts were made, which were stopped by the program protections for viruses.
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 malicious books, hackers focused on English, math, 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.
