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Hackers are always on the lookout for vulnerable websites into which they could inject malware and use the same to distribute malware or other potentially harmful applications into users’ systems/devices. There are many kinds of malware that evade detection and stay inactive until the hacker sends a signal to allow a backdoor entry or to […]
The development methodology of malware has changed drastically, something that cannot be ignored. A few years ago, the primary objective of the hackers was to rake profit and avoid detection. However, these criminals have realized that the longer they have an infected endpoint, the more money they make. Then came fileless Malware, a kind of […]
The Japanese government has decided to create and maintain defensive malware in a bid to secure the country against cyberattacks. Catalin Cimpanu, security reporter at ZDNet, writes, “The Japanese Defense Ministry will create and maintain cyber-weapons in the form of malware that it plans to use in a defensive capacity.” The ZDNet report says that […]
Five campuses of the Columbia State Community College were forced to shut down for two days following a malware attack. The issues reportedly happened after an employee opened an email with a malicious attachment on February 13. The virus spread to the college’s communication network, following which classes on all campuses were forced to shut […]
Since the web 2.0 development has become the common way to present a website to users these days, the manual programming of websites has been now old school. Most websites use a Content Management System backend to manage the publishing of the website’s frontend. One such mainstream CMS is Joomla, which has slowly but surely […]
The 2018 mass laptop virus infection affecting the state of Alaska which has affected more than half a million users is still not a closed case. Alaska’s Division of Public Assistance has publicly disclosed their claim that the virus infection though very rampant did not cause any information leaks or breach of user information. However, […]
WordPress is perhaps one of the most popular free, open source content management systems (CMS); it’s said that WordPress powers 30 percent of the internet. Now, let’s look at the other side of the picture; whatever is popular on the internet is likely to be targeted by cyber criminals as well. Well, they could only […]
An arrest has been made over the Andromeda botnet, following an operation involving the FBI, Europol, and cybersecurity companies. A major botnet, which incorporated millions of PCs and is associated with over 80 different malware families, has been taken down in an international cyber-operation. Authorities including the FBI, Europol’s European Cybercrime centre (EC3), the Joint Cybercrime […]