[HN Gopher] Malware masked as textbooks and essays
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       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.
        
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