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TOP Facts About Adware Attacks To Be Reminded Today

ByStephanie AdlamMay 21, 2022

To begin with, each of you has faced this challenge. Namely, the infestation with advertising: pop-up windows, banners on your screen left and right when you want to do your job or find the needed information in the browser. It comes from nowhere, and often when you click on

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Reasons Why An Antivirus Is Important: Advantages Of Using An Antivirus

ByStephanie AdlamMay 20, 2022

If you are one of those people who actually contemplate on whether to buy a new antivirus solution, we can only envy your confidence. These days going into the cyber world without any antivirus can sometimes be a risky escapade. Just read recent news headlines from the IT

ByStephanie AdlamMay 11, 2022

Spyware can definitely be called the most sophisticated malware these days. It never acts openly, using tricky techniques, and appears more and more often together with other viruses. Together with its brother-in-law – stealer malware – spyware helps the

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How to Remove Yahoo Search from Chrome?

ByStephanie AdlamMay 9, 2022

Yahoo search is a legitimate search engine that exists for over 25 years. When chosen by desire, it offers all the basic functions of any search engine. However, there are certain situations when Yahoo search appears in your Chrome browser without your wish. In this article,

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20 Dangerous Types of Cybersecurity Threats 2022

ByStephanie AdlamApril 27, 2022

The cybersecurity threats in 2022 are more considerable than ever. Due to the emergence of efficient ransomware, coin miners, spyware, and so on, hacking has become a consistently profitable business. Knowing about cybersecurity threats is crucial because it livens up the

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Emotet Malware Operators Found a Bug in Their Bootloader

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyApril 26, 2022

Emotet malware operators have fixed a bug due to which, after opening a malicious document the system was not infected, and launched a phishing campaign again. Let me remind you, by the way, that at the end of last year we wrote that Microsoft patches Windows AppX Installer

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TOP 9 Malware Attacks: Worldwide Compilation 2022

ByStephanie AdlamApril 21, 2022

The World Wide Web is not a hostile realm by itself, but any Internet user should be aware of the dangers lurking on the Net. If earlier harmful software was just fun for the hackers or vandalism in the worst case, today malware attacks are a viable business model. The

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Shuckworm hackers attack Ukrainian organizations with new variant of Pteredo backdoor

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyApril 20, 2022

Specialists from the cybersecurity company Symantec reported attacks by the cybercriminal group Shuckworm (Armageddon or Gamaredon) on Ukrainian organizations using a new version of the Pteredo (Pteranodon) custom backdoor. The group, linked by experts to Russia, has been

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Nation-State Threat Actors are an Actual Menace, According to CISA

ByStephanie AdlamApril 19, 2022

On April 13, the US government (specifically, the Department of Energy, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation) made a warning about nation-state threat actors using specialized malware to

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RuRansom Malware Destroys Data in Russian Systems

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyApril 18, 2022

VMware specialists spoke about the activity of the RuRansom wiper, which attacks Russian systems and deliberately destroys its data, including backups. Unlike ordinary cryptographers who extort ransoms from the victims, the author of RuRansom does not ask for money, but