Researchers from Kaspersky analyzed school and student-related files and detected several malware strains disguised as textbooks and essays.
Key findings
Kaspersky researchers noted that attackers have targeted their users in the education field over 356,000 times in the past academic year.
“As it turns out, over the past academic year, cybercriminals who have been targeting the field of education have tried to attack our users more than 356,000 times in total. Of these, 233,000 cases were malicious essays that were downloaded to computers owned by more than 74,000 people and that our solutions managed to block,” researchers said.
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