Social engineering tactics are used to trick users into downloading and running malicious programs. These tactics take advantage of interest created around certain mainstream news subjects, such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina or the US Elections. Its now the turn of the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest particle accelerator on Earth, to unwittingly help malware authors spread their creations. The malware served to the unknowing user varies so far, weve captured a number of Trojan downloaders. Of course, programs like these could be used to spread any piece of bad software.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/large-hadron-collider-spreads-malware/30449/