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 … Continue reading Russian cyber attackers launch ‘malware campaign’ against Android phones
Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels.com 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 … Continue reading LinkedIn a major target for cybercriminals
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 … Continue reading How to avoid scams targeted at businesses
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 … Continue reading Biden: Hackers targeting ill-prepared local governments
It's pretty much inevitable now: You visit a website and get a notification that encourages you to read the company's cookie policy. Then, the site asks if they can have your permission to give you cookies. Odds are, you just click through, don't bother to read the policy and carry on with your web browsing, … Continue reading How to delete cookies from your computer, and why you should do it
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 … Continue reading Cybersecurity: What you should know about ‘info stealers’ and online security
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. Man without identity programming in technology environment with cyber icons and symbols POS malware does this by scraping the temporarily unencrypted card data from the POS’s memory … Continue reading Everything you should know about Point of Sale (POS) malware
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 … Continue reading Cybersecurity challenges in the British education system
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 … Continue reading PornHub visitors warned of malicious Virus Attacks
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. … Continue reading A Massive Ransomware Attack is on the prowl for Computers right now
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