NETSCOUT discovered a substantial surge in the number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in 2020. This is in the trend set after the pandemic started, according the company.
DDoS attacks, triggered by home working
As
most of the users started…
Google’s rules
for ad blockers change dramaticaly, as Google makes most of its money
from ads. Its newest Chrome browser extension platform – Manifest
v3,created lots of controversy. It happened as it meant to get rid of
the blocking capabilities that webRequest API…
Ransomware attacks targeted Toymaker Mattel Inc., the company that produces Barbie dolls and also the Hot Wheels cars. The company disclosed the information and mentioned it managed to reject the attack.
Encrypted data in the attack
According to the…
Many systems offer a way for backdoor attacks. This means the attackers install malware, such as trojans and cancel the authentication procedures. Thus, they affect a computer system, a network, a server or a software app.
What are backdoor attacks?
Attackers
are…
Any user should know how to avoid ransomware attacks as they are, in fact, malware attacks that encrypt victim’s files. Then, the attackers ask victims to pay a ransom, in order to decrypt them. Usually they ask for huge amounts of money in cryptocurrency. Recently…
According to a government security agency, state-sponsored hackers launched cyber-attacks for the COVID 19 vaccine, against UK universities. They were trying to steal research on developing the vaccine. So, they believe that Russia, Iran and China might have been behind this…
As the demand for real-time video is higher now, Facebook counterattacks Zoom and Microsoft. The number of video calls more than doubled in many countries on Messenger and WhatsApp. Also, views of Facebook Live and Instagram Live videos increased significantly. That’s…
Ad fraud has become a very big issue for both users and the advertising agencies. Different forms of it might reach a cost of $120 billion, until 2023, in the U.S. only. This means up 21%, from 2021.
High growth of different forms of ad fraud
The ad fraud varies a…
Experts suspect Belarusian hackers for launching a malicious software attack, targeting European officials. Thus, experts say that attackers try to disrupt their efforts to aid Ukrainian refugees.
The attack, similar to other Belarusian hackers’ campaigns…
Meta filed a lawsuit in California court to stop phishing attacks that target its users on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and Whatsapp.
The company had to take steps to stop phishing
Meta’s decision came as there
were more than fake 39,000 website trying to…
