Malware peddlers offered Raspberry Pi money to infect your micro-PC

The Raspberry Pi—the popular mini-PC that’s about the size of credit card—is attracting attention from malware distributors. But not in the sense that you might think.

Last Wednesday, the Raspberry Pi Foundation tweeted a screenshot of an email in which a company effectively asked to install malware onto users Raspberry Pis.

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In the email, the company, whose name was redacted, offered the Foundation money in order to distribute an exe file on Raspberry Pi machines (never mind the fact that the Raspberry Pi doesn’t run Windows). Installing the exe would place a shortcut icon on the desktop; if you open it, you’d be taken to the company’s website. “Then this is our target,” the email reads in part.

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