Digital Smarts - Teachers Being Targeted By Ransomware Through Fake Student Assignments

Both parents and teachers should be aware that new ransomware campaigns are targeting teachers with email subject lines indicating the messages contain students' assignments. According to an article on the TechRadar site, teachers have received e-mails in which the attacker poses as a parent or guardian submitting an online assignment on behalf of a student, claiming the student encountered technical issues when trying to submit the assignment themselves. However, instead of attaching an assignment to their emails, the attacker has attached a malicious document that downloads a custom ransomware payload. Some of the email subject lines have included, "Son's Assignment Upload" and "Assignment Upload Failure for [Name]."