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4 – Rise of the bots

🎯 Learning Objectives

  • List the common malware threats
  • Examine how different types of malware cause problems for computer systems
  • Question how malicious bots can have an impact on societal issues

💬 Key Vocabulary

  • ransomware
  • malware
  • viruses
  • trojans
  • worms
  • adware
  • spyware
  • bots
  • botnet

📝 Starter Activity – 

📝 Level 1 – 

🏅 Level Up

🥇 Level 1

🥈 Level 2

🥉 Level 3

In this lesson, you…

  • Looked at how different types of malware cause problems for computer systems
  • Discussed how malicious bots can have an impact on societal issues

Next lesson, you will…

  • Look at how we can protect computer networks from the threats that we have learnt about in the unit so far