A previously unknown botnet campaign, named Jaku or JAKU has been investigated by researchers at Forcepoint Security Labs. The botnet has affected more than 19,000 computers, including them in its zombie network. Interestingly, most of the victims appear to be…
Did you know that Password Day is celebrated on May 5? IT celebrations such as this one make us consider the importance of acting on our online security. So, if you haven’t changed your password(s) in a while, make sure…
Even though it’s a common fact that Facebook is often targeted by phishing scams and “viruses”, user accounts continue being hijacked and hacked. Shortly said, if you become a victim to a smartly crafted phishing email, someone, a crook, will…
Ransomware has been hitting hospitals and putting the well-being of patients at risk for several months now. Attacking healthcare institutions is bad enough. What could be worse? India Times just reported that a nuclear plant in Germany has been infected…
Platinum Nugget. Image Source: Wikipedia There are basically two types of hacking teams. The first type is after quick profit, harvesting credit card numbers and banking details. The second type is more dangerous, even though it may not directly affect…
Image Source: Blue Coat Researchers at Blue Coat have discovered and analyzed a new mobile ransomware campaign that targets older Android devices and doesn’t require user interaction prior to infection. The campaign may be novel but the ransomware has been…
Remember the Ashley Madison hack from 2015? On 18 and 20 August, a hacking group called The Impact Team leaked more than 25 gigabytes of company data, user details included. Data breaches of that scale happen quite often and put…
The search capabilities of the Big G are a lot more flexible and powerful than you may think. Just imagine how much more you could derive from Google, if you were aware of all the tips and tricks on improving…
Banking malware has evolved a lot during the last couple of years. New banking malware pieces keep on emerging, targeting banks all over the globe. The latest threat of the kind has been identified by researchers at Proofpoint and Fox…
Ransomware is the most vicious cyber threat currently affecting thousands of users on a global level. Mostly affected are users of Windows, being targeted by both sophisticated and simplistic ransomware pieces. However, OS X and Linux users are not spared…
Image Source: Pexels.com Cyber criminals are constantly reinventing well-established methods to attack unsuspecting users. One of the most common attack paths is through compromised websites. Once the user has landed on such a website, he will then encounter an exploit…
No matter if you are an Apple fan or not, you have definitely heard or read about the dispute between FBI and Apple. Moreover, this dispute has triggered a strong wave of discussions about encryption in general, specifically end-to-end encryption.…
CAPTHAs, or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, can be pretty annoying sometimes, but, in terms of online security, they are a necessary evil. Unfortunately, Google’s and Facebook’s CAPTCHA services have been broken down by…
Image Source: Pexels.com Can you imagine your life without Google? Perhaps you can, perhaps you can’t. And perhaps it depends on whether you were born before or after Google was introduced to the world. Nonetheless, the truth is we use…
What Is a Brute Force Attack? Brute force attacks may sound like something very complicated but they are easy to explain and understand. However, the protection against them is not as easy to achieve. In the language of cyber security,…
Malware attacks are on the rise and as CRO of F-Secure Mikko Hypponen said on Ted talks – “It is no longer a war against our computers, it is now a war against our lives.” To better protect ourselves from…
Image Source: www.gotcredit.com Today is World Backup Day. So, why is it so important to backup your files? Let’s see: The cat jumps on your desk and walks by the lap top spilling the coffee on your keyboard – as…
We know about advanced persistent threats. But what do we know about advanced persistent bots? Advanced Persistent Bots – The New Emerging Threat According to the latest annual report by Distil Networks, the number of bad bots has increased sensibly…
ESET researchers have identified an Infostealer Trojan that is activated via USB drive specially configured for it. The info stealer can slip past antivirus software undetected and run as a legitimate svchost process in Windows. The malware’s detections names given…
A zero-day flaw in Apple’s OS X may sound like something rather impossible. Unfortunately, researchers have indeed discovered a zero-day vulnerability that enables attackers to exploit key protection feature in the believed-to-be invincible operating system. As revealed by SentinelOne researcher…
