Survey Shows Americans Have a Poor Understanding of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity awareness is crucial, as one wrong click can lead to a whole network being compromised. A lot of people seem to not have a great understanding of cybersecurity, …
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Average DDoS Attack Causes Over a Million Dollars in Damages
Even though distributed denial-of-service attacks are nothing new under the sun, the repercussions are often underestimated. Such an attack will cause a major outage for the service in question, …
Malware Hunter Search Engine Sniffs out Malware Command-and-control Servers
It looks like security researchers have reached an important milestone in the ongoing war against malware. A new search engine has been revealed which can be used to sniff …
CryptFile2 Ransomware Obfuscates Infected Files’ Extension to Avoid Decryption
It appears a lot of existing ransomware strains are undergoing some much-needed upgrades as of late. The developers of CryptoMix variant CryptFile2 have introduced some noteworthy changes. All encrypted …
New Macintosh Malware Hijacks All Internet Traffic
Macintosh users are quickly becoming a new target for cyber criminals these days. A new type of Mac malware has been discovered, which is capable of intercepting encrypted web …
Is Mobile Payment Tech Still Insecure?
It began in the ‘80s, when an American cryptographer began toying around with the idea of cryptocurrency. In 1994, the first-ever online purchase was made: a pepperoni pizza. Later …
SMBs Paying Ransomware Demand Have 50% Chance to See Files Decrypted
It is anything but surprising to learn paying a ransomware attacker is not the best course of action. Doing so will have severe consequences for any malware victim on …
Ransomware Attacks Remain Successful Due to Lack of Communication and Collaboration
The fight against online crime is proving to be an uphill battle, to say the least. With malware, ransomware, and Trojans becoming more common threats than ever before, the …
Californian ISP’s Modems Fall Victim To Malware Turf War
Criminals actively deploying malware often target unsuspecting users. In the state of California, however, one the local ISPs has suffered from massive outages due to two colliding malware attacks. …