Reading Time: 3 minutes Ransomware is pretty dreadful when it hits consumer PCs and smartphones. But ransomware is also frequently being used to target organizations and institutions around the world. WannaCry’s effect on the UK NHS public healthcare system last year highlighted how harmful ransomware can be when it hits hospital computers. This past February, I wrote about a…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Many people don’t take Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA) as a serious danger. The reason for such a reckless attitude is that PUA are usually installed with the consent of the user. But this opinion is a big mistake. And not only because a PUA can covertly install other programs like adware or spyware on a…

Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’re into gaming, you’ve probably heard of Fortnite: Battle Royale. Epic Games’ popular new online title debuted on consoles and PCs in September 2017, on iOS this April, and finally on Android for a handful of device models (Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge , S8 / S8+, S9 / S9+, Note 8, Note…

Reading Time: 4 minutes If you ask a malware analyst to name the most dangerous and nefarious trojans, Emotet will be definitely present in the list. According to the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, the trojan “continues to be among the most costly and destructive malware affecting state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, and the private and public…

Reading Time: 3 minutes The most memorable cyber attack demonstration I’ve ever seen was Barnaby Jack’s ATM jackpotting presentation at Black Hat 2010. (Rest in peace, Barnaby Jack.) He exploited vulnerabilities in two third party ATM models made by Triton and Tranax. He bought the ATM devices himself so he could research them and take them to the event….

Reading Time: 4 minutes Drone aircraft are some of the U.S. Air Force’s deadliest weapons. Information on how to operate them can be very dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands. If that sort of data was breached and exfiltrated, you’d expect the attack vector would be an obscure zero-day vulnerability being exploited by a masterful cyberwarfare group,…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Perpetrators go on inventing cunning techniques to attack users. One of the most popular tricks of infecting a computer is poisoned MS Office files with a malicious script inside. A new dangerous threat related to this kind of attack has newly appeared. Hackers use .IQY files to get a total remote access to a victim’s…

Reading Time: 4 minutes An airgapped machine is a computer that is so heavily secured that it has no physical or digital connections to any networks. They’re usually also heavily physically secured in datacenters and server rooms with carefully monitored physical access. To put new data into an airgapped machine, typically a cybercriminal would have to physically breach the…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Awards confirm Comodo as only free product to provide 100% protection against zero-day malware. Comodo’s Internet Security, One and Cloud Antivirus products have each been awarded ‘Best+++’ in the latest round of tests from security testing firm, AVLab. Significantly, Comodo scored 100% protection score against ransomware and cryptominers, confirming the strength of Comodo’s containment technology…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Like many countries around the world, cybercrime is a problem in Rwanda. Malware is a frequent means of conducting cybercrime. According to Comodo intelligence, between January 1st and June 4th of this year, Rwandan networks got hit by 4,006 different strains of malware. Here’s a summary of the most common types of malware that Comodo…