Europol coordinated a joint operation against Emotet, in a multinational effort – “Operation Ladybird”. Thus, police in the Ukraine, Lithuania, US, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, France and Canada were involved. It seems that the authorities managed to take…
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…
Cybercriminals found a new way to insert messages into their potential victims’ inbox. So, according to research Gemini Advisory, a hacker is advertising a new tool on a dark web forum.
Thus, the attackers do not have to send the malicious emails, but implant them.
Showing
annoying ads has become a way hackers try to trick users into
clicking them or push notifications and infecting their Windows
computers.
In
fact, attackers use the malicious ads to inject lots of unwanted
programs on the victims’ systems, while users are…
Funny ads might be delightful for most of us. We appreciate the ingenuity, the idea, the result and the fact that they are different. And this is a good thing.
It might even be the reason for which we do not mind to see more ads like those.
On the other hand, the…
Hacking LinkdeIn, Dropbox and Formspring brought a sentence of seven years in prison for a Russian.
Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was charged
for stealing and using the stolen employee credentials. According to
the court, he used to access the systems of LinkedIn…
Online fraud is now more than ever a way that hackers explore in order to make easy money. Thus, they try to mislead users into clicking fake ads or even hijack the users that click on legitimate ads.
What is online fraud?
Well,
according to the
Collins…
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is standard mechanism for formatting web pages. Developers use it to define text styles, for instance, but also other aspects of the web pages.
Why is CSS very useful?
Well, Cascading Style Sheet is the
standard that helps developers…
Online
privacy is every user’s most important and
valuable asset. “Valuable” literally means that companies can
convert it into money.
Just
to have a better idea, in 2016 only, search
engines made over 100 billion dollars, partly by selling your
personal data…
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…
