{"id":39238,"date":"2021-01-21T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/laptops-given-to-british-schoolkids-came-preloaded-with-malware-and-talked-to-russia-when-booted\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:32:08","slug":"laptops-given-to-british-schoolkids-came-preloaded-with-malware-and-talked-to-russia-when-booted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/laptops-given-to-british-schoolkids-came-preloaded-with-malware-and-talked-to-russia-when-booted\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptops given to British schoolkids came preloaded with malware and talked to Russia when booted"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shipment of laptops supplied to British schoolkids by the Department for Education to help them learn under lockdown came preloaded with malware, The Register<\/i> can reveal.<\/p>\n

The affected laptops, supplied to schools under the government’s Get Help With Technology<\/a> (GHWT) scheme, which started last year, came bundled with the Gamarue malware \u2013 an old remote access worm from the 2010s.<\/p>\n