MALWARE
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Cyber attackers linked to Russia’s intelligence agency have been targeting the phones of Ukrainian soldiers with a “malware campaign”, according to British intelligence. A group known as Sandstorm has been deploying a virus named “Infamous Chisel” to steal sensitive military information, the UK Ministry of Defence said. It enables persistent access to Android devices and…
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Phishing trends 2023 LinkedIn LinkedIn is used by more than 850 million people across more than 200 countries and regions. With so many people using the platform, it is the perfect target for email phishing attacks. In Q1 of 2021, phishing emails using LinkedIn as cover were the most clicked-on social media mail, at 42%, ahead…
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There are many scams targeting businesses. They always try to steal your data. They will try to steal your personal and private data. They then blackmail you and convince you to pay a huge amount of money. They sometimes offer you services you don’t need and then charge you for them. Always know these types…
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President Joe Biden on March 21, 2022, warned that Russian cyberattacks on U.S. targets are likely, though the government has not identified a specific threat. Biden urged the private sector: “Harden your cyber defenses immediately.” It is a costly fact of modern life that organizations from pipelines and shipping companies to hospitals and any number of private companies are vulnerable…
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The term info stealer is self-explanatory. This type of malware resides in an infected computer and gathers data in order to send it to the attacker. Typical targets are credentials used in online banking services, social media sites, emails, or FTP accounts. Info stealers may use many methods of data acquisition. The most common are: hooking browsers…
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Point-of-sale (POS) malware is software specifically created to steal customer data, particularly from electronic payment cards like debit and credit cards and from POS machines in retail stores. POS malware does this by scraping the temporarily unencrypted card data from the POS’s memory (RAM), writing it to a text file, and then either sending it…
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Student Loans Company suffered just shy of a million attempted cyberattacks in the last fiscal year. The organisation says that “malicious online activity affects every organisation” and that 99.9% of the recorded attempts in 2017/18 presented an “extremely low level of threat”. The comments, made by an SLC spokesperson during an interview with IT Pro, may…
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Hackers have reportedly attacked a popular adult website PornHub, and unsuspecting visitors could have their profiles exposed to the general public. According to researchers, the website was breached by malware after cyber criminals gained access to its advertising supply chain. The large-scale attack, as reported by internet security experts Proofpoint, “exposed millions of potential victims in the…
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Do you own a laptop, computer and smartphones? Or love surfing the internet for pleasure and business? Here’s something you should know. Whatever your purposes are, you’d be glad to learn that computer experts have confirmed there’s a massive ransomware currently prowling every country in the world right now to unleash damages previously unknown. Agreed.…
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South Korea has confirmed its cyber command was hacked last month, after officials discovered a malicious code in the system, reports say. The cyber attack has quickly aroused suspicions that North Korea might have been the culprit. Though it remains unclear how the security was breached, officials confirm the malware code had targeted a “vaccine…
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Image: Google Android At least 10 million Android devices have been infected by malware called HummingBad, according to cybersecurity software maker Check Point. Check Point, which has been tracking the malware since it was discovered in February, has released an analysis of the threat. For months, the number of infections were steady but they spiked sharply…
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There’s yet nothing like Google. The company has shown a high level of respect and honesty to customers by revealing that its own safe browsing tool is flagging “google.com” as partially dangerous.
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Trend Micro Inc. is a global security software company which was established in Los Angeles, California, USA. Its global headquarters is in Tokyo, Japan while there are other regional headquarters in Asia, Europe and the Americas. The company develops security software for servers, cloud computing environments, and small business. Its cloud and virtualization security products provide…
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