The arms race between cybercriminals and cybersecurity warriors is increasing at an enormous speed. Malware authors immediately react on any detected and neutralized malware with new, more sophisticated samples to bypass the freshest antimalware products. GandCrab is a bright representative of such new-generation malware. First discovered in January 2018, this sophisticated, cunning and constantly changing…

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…

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…

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…

Talks of Korean reunification have made me feel very optimistic. The Korean War has had a devastating effect on Koreans on both sides of the heavily guarded border. Families have been separated for decades. The war started before I was born! Since 1953, relations between North Korea and South Korea have been considered to be…

There’s no better time than the present, or so they say. And when it comes to protecting sensitive data and finding increased guardianship in the digital age, this adage has never felt more true. Looking around at today’s online threats, one thing becomes perfectly clear—the realm of cybersecurity has become, hands down, one of the…

In this Infographic Comodo brings about the malware threats that took place 2017 globally and the trojan and virus threats to be expected for 2018      

2017 will long be remembered as the year of information breaches. It was also a year of security analysis in enterprise security and multiple geopolitical events that corresponded with major malware spikes. From elections to North Korea nuclear threats and missile launches, it seems likely that cyber actors are using geopolitical events to achieve cyber…

In the first few weeks of 2018, cybercriminals targeted five universities, 23 private companies and several government organizations. Despite the new, sophisticated types of malware the attackers used, they were unable to penetrate Comodo defenses. The cybercriminals tried to build a complicated chain to bypass technical security means and deceive human vigilance. Analysts at Comodo’s…

Sometimes a marketing analogy misleads us about the complex idea it is trying to simplify. A great example of this is equating PC security to the immune system of the human body. Because we accept being unwell with a cold as a fact of life, we assume computer infections are inevitable too. They are not….