Also known as CATO, the corporate account takeover is a form of identity theft where hackers use malicious malware to access and steal the financial and sensitive information of employees for carrying out illegal activities. Some of the common hotspots for carrying our…
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…
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 Direct Action Virus is one of the most common forms of malware and infects systems by attaching itself with .exe or .com files.
A computer virus aims at hampering the overall working of your device and can be segregated into multiple categories depending on their…
A Web Scripting Virus aims at exploiting browser vulnerabilities and works by breaching your browser security with a client code script. It is one of the most common and widespread viruses that mainly spread with the help of infected webpage ads and pop-ups.
Web…
A bot is an automated program designed to perform a specific task. Bots are also referred to as crawlers, spiders, and web-bots. Malware bots are used by cybercriminals to perform repetitive tasks and aim at getting full system control.
There can be both good and bad…
Dropper malware are malicious programs that are designed to secretly carry harmful programs built into their codes on a machine. They usually carry backdoors, infected software, and viruses and targets vulnerable and compromised systems.
Individually, droppers are not…
The Stealth virus is a highly dangerous virus whose detection is quite difficult. It can infect your device in several ways including email attachments, infected weblinks, application download from third-party websites etc.
It usually hides in the corners of your device…
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…
