Reading Time: 2 minutes Some people would love to work for a highly ethical company, one where trust is absolute, and everyone is treated equally. Where peace and love are considered the only attributes. The challenge is these places are few and far between. Imagine a place where you accept a job, and the company performs a background check….

Reading Time: 2 minutes Comodo Threat Research Labs (CTRL) detected more than 25 million malware incidents in 223 top-level country code domains (ccTLD), in nearly every nation, province, state and city on Earth in its new Q1 2017 Threat Report. Here, we summarize the report’s key findings. Russia: World’s No. 1 Malware Victim Despite decades of analysis highlighting Russia…

Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2003, Oxford University Philosophy Professor Nick Bostrom posed the following question: what if an artificial intelligence (AI) machine were given just one task: to create as many paper clips as possible? If you think about it, this AI machine might decide to kill off the human race. Why? Because 1) humans may decide to…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Since 2013, the CryptoLocker malware has been making its way across the Internet in various forms, in various iterations. CryptoLocker is a ransomware trojan which targets computers running Microsoft Windows and is especially popular among cybercriminals for its ability to read a file, encrypts that file, overwrite the original file with the encrypted file and…

Reading Time: 3 minutes The security engineers and IT experts from the Comodo Labs are constantly analyzing the thousands of malware families that are trying to cause destruction and chaos to IT infrastructures large and small – and ensuring the customers of Comodo stay protected and secure from these malware families. In an ongoing series of posts here at…

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: 1 minute That’s the question that Comodo Director of Technology Fatih Orhan put forth in a new byline article just posted in Computer Technology Review magazine. Is it possible that the CPU power from your own computer is being used for cyberattacks and the spread of malware? It indeed is. Cyber criminals are now more organized than…

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: 1 minute Shylock is the notorious banking malware designed to fool you into giving your banking login and account details to Cybercrooks. If its name and behavior sound familiar, consider yourself well-read. A bit of trivia: Shylock earned its name by references in its code to William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice. Shylock works like this:…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Spam email is to the Internet what pollution is to waterways and phishing email is the most toxic of digital pollutants. Current measures for dealing with unsolicited mail are being overwhelmed by the sheer volume and increasing sophistication of spam campaigns. Comodo has a solution with KoruMail, and it is needed more than ever. According…