Malware

employees and customers, including all digital assets and intelligence of the company. Edu Corp’s Scams and Fraud Policy outlines the regulations for social engineering recognition, fraudulent recognition, phishing detection, false antivirus detection, malware protection, malicious software protection and guarding, spyware and adware detection, and identity…

The impact of security incidents in today’s computing world is increasing day by day due to the complexity, growing reliance on software with known vulnerabilities, higher user expectations and expanding and changing systems. The computing environment has become highly complex. Networks, operating systems, computers, Web sites, applications, switches, routers, and gateways are interconnected and are driven by hundreds of millions of lines of code. The number of potential entry points to a…

carried on to attack government financial corporations and individuals with the motivation to paralyze and restrict the targeted institution from gaining future access and control to their information and data. Social Engineering, scams, phishing and malware are all the sources to gain access to the confidential information. As internet being more and more common way for daily activities, cyber-attacks are also becoming more and more sophisticated to attack the target audience. These attacks or…

Attack Timeline, Target’s Perspective Date 1: November 15, 2013 – Cybercriminals conduct attack on HVAC systems. Criminals penetrated Target’s point of sale network and installed malware on terminals. Date 2: November 27, 2013 (12 days after Date 1) – Cybercriminals begin stealing information from 40 million debit/credit cards from Target’s systems. *Last known attack from cyber criminals* Date 3: November 30, 2013 (15 days after…

Background Information Crowdsourcing information security uses the reach of crowdsourcing to tackle problems involving information security and cyber security. To effectively crowdsource a task, especially in information security, three criteria must be met: • First, the crowdsourcing task must be solvable by a large group. • Second, the requester must have access to a large group of people that work either collaboratively or independently toward a solution. • Third, the requester needs to…

dreaded in the Trojan family, much due to its destructive power and stealth behaviour. It gets into your system via spam mails or unauthorized programs and websites. Once it gets into your system, it starts attracting other similar type of viruses and malware and then all these viruses launch a collective attack on the system, virtually turning…

History of ransom ware Ransomware virus are carried out by trojan program. According to …, a trojan is a type of malware that is often disguised as legitimate software. This malicious program allows cyber criminals to 1) Deleting data 2) Blocking data 3) Modifying data 4) Copying data 5) Disruption the performance of computer or computer network. First ransomware virus In 1989, according to the “”. The AIDS Trojan, also known as the PC Cyborg virus, was the first ever ransomware virus…

cracking to denial of service assaults. It is likewise used to describe conventional misdeeds where computers or networks are used to facilitate criminal activity. Cybercrime can involve computer viruses, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, identity theft, malware, and spam. The impacts of a solitary, effective cyberattack can have huge ramifications including economic costs, stolen intellectual property and loss of confidence and trust. Criminals have been exploiting cyberspace even before the…

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We 've created life in our own image.” (Hawking, n.d.) No matter what humans invent it will always end up being used for warfare and computers are no different. Cyber warfare is now commonplace throughout the world because just about any country can do it. This causes it to have many various effects throughout the world.…

160 successful cyber attacks per week, more than three times the 2010 average of 50 per week. Every company surveyed was the victim of a Trojan, virus, or worm type of attack. Ninety-seven percent surveyed were reported to have been the victim of a malware attack and 76 percent were victim of a Web-based attack. Just as worrisome as hackers trying to get into a network system are those with malicious intent who already have access to a system. Forty-three percent of companies reported cyber…