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February 14th, Valentine’s Day, maybe the day of love but there’s no love lost between cybercriminals and their target. In recent years, these criminals are only getting smarter in their ways and ensuring that they time their attacks at...
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The unhindered growth of e-commerce and its impact has seemingly increased the risks of online fraud. Moreover, the attacks have amplified in terms of magnitude as the technologies adopted by the hackers are getting persuasive and more powerful, with...
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Small and medium sized businesses usually rely on organizational data for flourishing and succeeding in their endeavors. However, there are chances that the SMBs are putting all their data at risk by implementing erroneous strategies. According to the latest...
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Since WannaCry swept the world in 2017, ransomware has become a network administrator’s worst nightmare. It’s not without any reason: the devastating WannaCry ransomware attack affected more than 200,000 computers across 150 countries with huge damages. Other notable ransomware attacks...
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Ransomware threats have long been plaguing the online space and are usually considered to be extremely disruptive in nature. Unlike other malware threats which keep a low profile, ransomware attacks announce themselves before crippling a system for diverse benefits....
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Cryptocurrency is the current buzzword of this day and age. Not a day goes by when there’s not a news item about cryptocurrency, either with warnings about its danger or breathless coverage of its fluctuating value. Without doubt, it’s...
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No wonder malspam campaigns are a major medium to spread malware. Previously, we have written about such campaigns making use of MS Office malware such as malicious macro, CVE-2017-0199, CVE-2017-8759 and DDE-based attack. Recently, we have started observing various malspam campaigns...
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It wouldn’t be wrong to assume that login credentials and other confidential user-specific insights are the most frequently compromised data sets, extensively targeted by the malicious parties. Since 2017 witnessed hackers breaching 711 million users records; thereby accessing around...
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When it comes to enlisting the most unrecognizable forms of cyber-attacks, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) features on top of the pecking order. While DDoS attacks started off as simple and volumetric threats for creating disruptions, they have amplified...