‘Other worlds’ inhabitants may send us “contaminated” signals in order to “hack” our communication systerÉs.

Atleast, this is what the study by American astrophysicists Michael Hippke and John G. Learned, which waspublished on the website Arxivorg, cautions about

The SETI (search for extraterrestrial inteligence) initiative tries to find life on other planets by using modernantennas and computers to examine extraterrestrial electromagnetic signals

Furthermore, scientists are attempting to send and receive encoded communications from space.

Extraterrestrials might transmit signals to communication networks with dangerous malware, according to thestudy.

Threatening to destroy the Sun if humanity do not agree to accept their demands, for example

According to specialists, SETI projects and personal computers are at risk of being infected by a trojan orvirus, whịch may offer a planet.level hacker access to personal data and the operating system. Theresearchers concluded: “We can either delete an extraterrestrial communication or take the risk!”