Wanna Cry

What better way to teach high school students about cybersecurity than with a small – or large – virus threatening their phones? To deactivate it before it steals their precious data, they’ll have to bypass the virus’ traps by modifying HTML/CSS/Javascript code… the language of the web.

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Customer Technocité
Format Escape room
Type  Sensitization game
Target  High School student
Objective  Understand the dangers of phishing and learn about the computer code used on the web

To improve secondary school students’ knowledge of phishing techniques, this escape game invites them to deactivate a virus before it is triggered. How does it work? Placed in a room equipped with several computers, post-its and lockers locked by a code, students have 1 hour to crack the virus’s password.

Phishing is a type of confidence trick designed to gather information, defraud or gain access to a system. It differs from a traditional “scam” in that it is often just one of many steps in a more complex fraud scheme. The game uses real-life examples and scenarios to highlight the right reflexes to adopt in order to show how hackers manage to gain maximum credibility with their targets.