Tech support scams are another avenue that cyber-criminals are approaching to gain profit. It majorly targets fooling users into paying for fixing technical issues in their computer system. Tech support scammers make you believe that you have serious PC issues that cannot be…
The destructive nature of Wiper Malware differentiates it from the other members of the family. Rather than aiming at ransom, the working methodology of this malicious malware involves deleting, wiping, or overwriting user data and information.
The motivation behind…
GandCrab ransomware belongs to the family of Ransomware and keeps coming back in a refined version. First discovered in January 2018 it works on RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service) and holds a market share of approximately 40%.
To date, its developers have released 5 different…
A Brute Force Attack is a cryptographic hack that is based on a password cracking method. It works on a hit and trial methodology which uses all possible combinations of username and password until the correct combination is discovered.
For strong and long passwords…
The WannaCry cryptoworm belongs to the family of ransomware and is known to be one of the ‘deadliest’ ones that we have seen in the past few decades. Have you come across such a warning message on your device? “Oops, your important files are locked”. If…
Over the last few decades, dangerous cyber-attacks have gained a lot of attention and have become a major area of concern for this technology-driven era. The underlying aim of a cyber attack can range between data theft to ransom attack, impersonation, cyber espionage…
An Insider Threat takes place when someone from within the organization or close to it uses its sensitive information in a wrong manner. The person exploiting the information can either be a former employee, board member, business partner, a current employee who has access…
Pornography is hard to avoid and protecting ourselves from the dangers of pornography is even harder. Since the cybercriminal is growing at a skyrocketing rate, it is imperative that we understand the dangers of pornography and take necessary actions to protect ourselves…
A birthday attack belongs to the family of brute force attacks and is based on the probability theorem. It is a cryptographic attack and its success is largely based on the birthday paradox problem. Such attacks are designed to exploit the communication between two parties…
A Zero-day exploit is related to vulnerabilities in device hardware, software, or firmware: these are unknown to the security experts and software vendors. It is often seen that in such kind of cyber attacks the day on which the voids are detected the attacks take place on…
