Reading Time: 3 minutes The latest, strangest new ransomware appears to come from France, or at least from French speaking cyber attackers. If your Windows PC has been successfully infected by the brand new Viro botnet ransomware, you will see this ransom note no matter where in le monde you are. Tout le monde is a possible target: Vos…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Email spam is a matter of grave concern to any organization as it can hinder the growth, profitability and IT security. Mostly, spam emails slow-down the productivity of employees by forcing them to clear the unwanted emails. Besides that, the spam emails bring the network performance to a grinding halt without a hint. It also…

Reading Time: 3 minutes What Is Phishing? Phishing is a method employed by cybercriminals to access email accounts and systems using deception rather than defeating security protections. In basic phishing attacks, cybercriminals send an email that appears to be legal, tempting the victim to open an attachment or click on a link. This click could result in loading malware…

Reading Time: 6 minutes The immense wave of phishing attacks hit the users of major banks in Turkey. Poisoned emails dropped into the users’ inboxes to covertly penetrate their computers and give the attackers total control over those who would be unlucky to take the perpetrators’ bait. With sophisticated and hard-to-discover malware attached, the phishing waves spread from many…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Bloomberg Businessweek published a shocking and controversial report on October 4th. Supermicro is based in San Jose, California. Although their end product servers are designed in the United States, they make their system motherboards in China. China is indeed the world’s manufacturing powerhouse. Roughly 75% of mobile phones, 90% of PCs, and 100% of my…

Reading Time: 3 minutes I remember a little while back, the year was 2011. Those were the last of my consumer Windows tech support days before I specialized in cybersecurity. I would buy Maximum PC magazines in print, because the “no books or magazines at your desk” rule very specifically excluded anything related to computer technology. So Psychology Today…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Recently discovered Xbash malware fits an emerging trend. It’s not just one type of malware, it’s at least four different types. It’s a worm! It’s ransomware! It’s a botnet! It’s a cryptominer! It slices and it dices, and it can be yours for four easy payments of two Bitcoins! Well, I haven’t seen infomercial-style ads…

Reading Time: 3 minutes With the online space evolving into a global marketplace businesses from around the world are trying to capitalise on the internet to tap their new customers and to engage with their existing ones. Besides this benefit, the internet has also provided room for online fraudsters to entice unwary users into phishing scams and make them…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Cryptomining has become a gold rush of nowadays, and cybercriminals are also seized by it. They invent more and more cunning gimmicks to infect users’ machines and make them mine cryptocurrency for the attackers’ profit. The cybercrime recently detected by Comodo specialists is a striking illustration of this process. To infect users all over the…

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s bad enough when ransomware infects an individual’s PC or smartphone. Not having access to locally stored files can really throw a wrench in the works of a person’s life. But when it comes to consumer ransomware, usually only one person is inconvenienced per infection. We know that ransomware attacks enterprise systems too. Public services…