[HN Gopher] Malware masked as textbooks and essays ___________________________________________________________________ Malware masked as textbooks and essays Author : malwalert Score : 23 points Date : 2020-03-31 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.kaspersky.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.kaspersky.com) | saagarjha wrote: | > As it turns out, over the past academic year, cybercriminals | targeting the field of education tried to attack our users more | than 356,000 times. Of these, 233,000 cases involved malicious | essays downloaded to computers owned by more than 74,000 people. | Our solutions blocked them, of course. | | Note that you can only detect malware you block. Successful | malware bypasses detection... | bigbird-media wrote: | Summary: | | Over the past academic year, cybercriminals targeting the field | of education tried to attack our users more than 356,000 times. | English textbooks were the most common malware hiding place K-12 | students encountered, with 2,080 attempted downloads. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-03-31 23:00 UTC)