Tim Thumb Attack
In this attack, hackers exploit a security flaw in a popular file used by WordPress and other website-building platforms to crop and resize images (“Timthumb.php,” thus the name).
Cyber Attack
Sodinokibi ransomware
Sodinokibi ransomware, also known as Sodin and REvil, is hardly three months old, yet it has quickly become a topic of discussion among cybersecurity professionals because of its apparent connection with the infamous-but-now-defunct GandCrab ransomware.
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Skidmap malware
Skid map, a Linux malware, demonstrates the increasing complexity of recent cryptocurrency-mining threats. This malware is notable because of the way it loads malicious kernel modules to keep its cryptocurrency mining operations under the radar. Skidmap then installs multiple malicious binaries, the first minimizing the infected machine’s security settings so that it can begin mining
Ramnit Malware
Ramnit is a family of malware-distribution trojans. Depending on particular variants, anti-virus suites can detect Ramnit as “Win32/Ramnit.A” or “Win32/Ramnit.B”. These viruses infiltrate systems without the user’s consent and open “backdoors” for other malware to infiltrate the system. Therefore, its presence typically leads to further computer infections.
Spyware In The IOT – The Biggest Privacy Threat This Year
In the two decades since the coining of the IoT phrase, cloud computing has emerged, evolved, and expanded on a massive scale, taking the IoT with it. To put it simply, an IoT device is any physical piece of hardware that has support for Ethernet or Wi-Fi networking. The IoT has come to be strongly
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