Also known as a CEO attack, the Whaling attack belongs to the family of phishing scams and is designed to trick users into performing a specific action.
In a Whaling attack, the criminals mimic themselves as a part of the higher management, mainly the CEO of the company…
A UDP Flood attack is a form of DoS attack (Denial of Service attack) where a massive number of UDP (User Datagram Protocol) are sent to a selected server. It is done to overload the system and hampers its ability to respond and process requests promptly.
Apart from…
What is riskware? Riskware is a combination of “risk” and “software” and is defined as the category of legitimate programs that can create havoc on your device and network if exploited. These programs are not designed to harm your computer systems in the first place…
Let’s try to have a better understanging of a proxy trojan and how can we stay safe.
Let’s first begin with what a trojan is and how it spreads. Often addressed as a Trojan Horse, a Trojan virus is a malicious piece of software that is designed to take full…
An Overwrite Virus is a malicious piece of computer virus which aims at destroying the original program code. It overwrites data in the host program (systems memory) rendering the entire program useless.
This deadly virus can exploit DOS platforms including Windows…
Spear Phishing attack belongs to the family of email-based cyber-attacks. It is categorized as a highly personalized attack and usually targets a specific individual. Apart from this, unlike normal phishing emails, its emails are strategically designed so that victims can…
Prevent intellectual property theft: copyrights, trademark, trade secrets, employee know-how, patent rights, and other confidential information. In addition to the physical assets of an organization, its intellectual property is highly crucial.
Since the IP data is…
System vulnerabilities provide a ready platform to cyber criminals to target organizational and home PCs. Since cyber crime is increasing at a skyrocketing rate it is imperative to keep pace with it and be prepared with possible security practices.
We usually tend to…
What is Scareware: Also known as a fraudware and rogue scanner software, a Scareware is malicious software that aims at tricking people into visiting infected websites. It appears as legitimate pop-ups on your computer from an antivirus software developer warning you of the…
A Hybrid attack uses the underlying strategies of both a brute force attack and dictionary attack in order to get past a password. It uses the dictionary attack to consider the extensive word list of available passwords while the brute force attack will apply each of the…
