Reading Time: 3 minutes We are starting to see it more and more: ransomware attacks are on the rise – and we’ve been seeing it especially (and unfortunately) in the medical profession lately, where patient records, medical data and key healthcare information are all being locked and held for ransom by cybercriminals. So why is this happening? And why…

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Comodo Antispam Labs (CASL) team has identified a new malware attack targeted specifically at businesses and consumers who might use WhatsApp, a multi-platform mobile phone messaging service that uses your phone’s Internet connection to chat with and call other WhatsApp users. As part of a random phishing campaign, cybercriminals are sending fake emails representing…

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Comodo Antispam Labs (CASL) team has identified a malware attack targeted specifically at businesses and consumers who may use UK Mail, the United Kingdom’s largest independent postal operator. As part of a random phishing campaign, the fake emails are being sent from the address no-reply@ukmail.com – which to a business or consumer could appear…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Remember when online security meant avoiding those sites on the wrong side of the tracks? No more. Malvertising is booming—not only in the number of attacks, but in sophistication as well. “Malicious advertising” is the illegal effort of spreading malware through legitimate online advertising, which is notoriously difficult to protect against. It’s a silent and…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Everyone loves to get something for free. Over the past few weeks thousands of people have not let a little thing like copyright law stop them from enjoying at least 5 current and soon to be released films pirated from Sony Pictures and made available for free download on file sharing sites. Before you consider…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Selfmite is a Worm, a category of computer virus. A worm contains malicious code that uses system networks to replicate themselves. They are major threat to a computer and network system. Worms do not require human intervention whereas viruses do. There have been many viruses that found by developers for a malicious purpose. Recently, Android…

Reading Time: 1 minute Oracle has released security updates to address BASH bug vulnerabilities found across multiple products. However, Oracle also included in its announcement a list of 42 Oracle products that remain vulnerable to Shellshock, with 17 more still under investigation. The so called Shellshock bug is a fault in the BASH command interpreter used with Unix variants…

Reading Time: 3 minutes So called “autorun viruses” were developed to infect external devices, such as infecting a victim’s PC while opening a flash drive in Windows Explorer. An autorun viruses exploits the Autorun.inf file  in the Windows OS  which is used to launch and auto play programs and files that are stored in removable disks such as Memory…

Reading Time: 1 minute IT is on high alert to deal with a fault in the BASH command interpreter found on Unix OS variants that could allow a hacker to take control of the computer.  Apple is one of the first vendors to respond, releasing an update to its Unix based Mac OS X to address the vulnerability. Dealing…

Reading Time: 2 minutes We are happy to report more independent evidence that you can sleep tight at night with Comodo Antivirus, even from some of the most sophisticated surveillance software used in the world! The controversial web site WikiLeaks recently published a very disturbing report about a German company that is openly selling powerful and previously unknown surveillance…