France, the country, and Anonymous, the hacktivists, have declared war on ISIS. President Obama has reluctantly done the same: in his Oval Office address on December 7th, the 74th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Obama used the word “war” for the first time in reference to c
One of the more common types of malware to threaten PC users over the last several years has been ransomware. Covered extensively on this blog, ransomware is malicious code that secretly encrypts the files and folders of an infected computer using state-of-the-art encryption techniques. Once encrypt
MySQL database servers, which millions of organizations worldwide rely on for backend database services, could soon be leveraged in massive DDoS attacks because of a dangerous malware variant known as Chikdos. Chikdos was first discovered by Polish cybersecurity experts over two years ago. Chikdos,
Over the last several years, malware has been evolving. From the ‘simple’ viruses of just a decade ago to the complex banking Trojan botnets of today - sometimes capable of stealing millions of dollars while evading modern detection methods - malware has become a constantly changing threat. Security
Over the last few years, malware creators have been moving away from traditional malware attacks that target the Windows OS; instead relying on malware specifically designed to infiltrate popular Web browsers. In most cases, the browsers are exploited via known vulnerabilities in common Web browser
Traditional malware is slowly becoming extinct as malware creators have realized that targeting routers and other Internet-connected devices (the Internet of Things) is more successful and in some cases, more financially lucrative as well. Routers and IoT devices are easy to infiltrate and because t
The Internet is a dangerous place and it seems like every day a new threat is discovered that could put your personal and financial data at risk. One of the most popular ways cybercriminals accomplish this is through a technique known as phishing. Phishing is a type of cyberattack whereby hackers cr
Researchers from Kaspersky Labs recently warned about a new Advanced Persistent Threat, or APT, that includes a powerful Remote Access Tool (RAT) with the ability to mitigate nearly all current IT security measures while granting full administrative access to the infected system from anywhere in the
The last several months have been plagued by countless reports of hardware routers being exploited by hackers for various reasons. Popular router brands including Belkin, Net Gear, and Linksys have all been targeted by cybercriminals and used as botnets to launch DDoS attacks. In fact, the PlayStati
A new malvertising campaign was recently discovered that has been running for at least three weeks without being detected although security experts concede that the threat could have been operating undetected for much longer than that. Considering the large number of malvertising schemes that have b