Smishing attacks through SMS usually target individuals or organizations, it imitates an identity of a legal organization to gain the trust of the victim. An incident from a locality in Chennai reported that an employee of a private firm was victimized to a phishing attack. The employee lost Rs 1.2 Lakh after he clicked on […]
Identity Theft – what and how to stay safe? With cloud storages and online platforms growing stronger by the day, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that we have digital equivalents of our identities up on the internet these days. SD Card filling up with photos? Save to Cloud! File Access necessary from all […]
All About Malware – Safeguarding Against Malware This is Part Three of the Three Part Series of Malware Blogs. Till now, we have learned what a malware is, and the different types of malware that can cause damage to your system. In the last instalment of this blog series, we will go over some ways […]
All About Malware – Types of Malware This is Part Two of the Three Part Series of Malware Blogs. A short recap of Part One As we saw before, malware is harmful code that hijacks your system and causes damage discreetly. Monetary gain and illegal access to private data are two foremost motivations behind a malware attack. We have learned of […]
Phishing gets two new neighbours, and they are just as deadly Phishing, which is the theft of information through fraudulent identities, has branched into two new forms of cyberattacks called as Vishing and Smishing. With the outbreak of smartphones going into a boom, the cyber-criminals have shifted their focus onto mobile devices. And thus evolved […]
Beware of Malware – It could be hiding in imposter income tax return emails! The internet has enabled individuals and companies to explore, innovate and expand. But it has also made life easier for scammers, malware attackers and hackers as their victims are more accessible to them than ever. Recently, a malware was found […]
How Machine Learning can help to protect your inbox from Spear Phishing Email is the easiest medium for malicious attackers to target. Today, more than 90% of targeted Threats enter your Organization through Emails! The main difference between a common phishing email and a spear phishing email is that the common phishing email mimics a […]
Cyber Security in the era of Internet-of-things is a changing paradigm. According to recent study by Gartner, more than half of major new business processes and systems will include an IoT component by 2020. Cisco speculates that more than 50 billion connected devices will exist by 2020 which will definitely make our lives easier in […]
Ransomware is considered one of the most dangerous threats to organizations across the world. Malware authors are developing new malicious codes that implement new features to improve evasion and spreading abilities. Ransomware is most typically distributed through spam email attacks. The spam email will have an attachment disguised as a legitimate file or will include a URL […]
Microsoft Security researchers discovered an unusual phishing campaign replicating their Microsoft login page designed to look exactly like Microsoft’s official login page and redirecting it to a 404 error page in order to steal users’s login information. “The 404 Not Found page tells you that you’ve hit a broken or dead link – except when it doesn’t,” says […]
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