Archive for October, 2018
Treating ransomware as an obsolete phenomenon is clearly a misconception, although there has actually been some lengthy steep plummeting in this segment of cybercrime. Yet, there are several species that keep thriving, GandCrab being one of them. Although it emerged less than a year ago, its adverse potential is huge due to competently created code […]
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There are computer infections like fake system utilities or ransomware that manifest themselves in an outright way. The users hit by the above baddies are shelled by deceptive problem detection reports or simply end up being unable to open their files. The Cryptonight malware is different. It surreptitiously siphons off the host computer’s processing power […]
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The present-day flourishing of crypto ransomware isn’t necessarily a security software problem. It’s also a human problem, because most of these attacks get through after the user opens a toxic spam attachment or as a result of poor authentication practices. This holds true for the .combo files version of the Dharma ransomware, which spreads via […]
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The ruse of social engineering is one of the oldest, most common and most effective techniques cybercriminals leverage to deceive people online. Sometimes the felons’ goal is to wheedle sensitive information out of victims, but in some scenarios the black hats seek to rip people off. The recent wave of the porn blackmail email scam […]
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