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Google | June 19, 2020

A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32-million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser. Instead, they siphoned off browsing history and data that provided credentials for access to internal business too...

Infosecurity | January 14, 2020

A Texas school district has found out the hard way that phishing attacks remain a serious financial threat to organizations of all shapes and sizes, losing an estimated $2.3m in a recent scam. Manor Independent School District took to Twitter to post official confirmation that the FBI is currently investigating the incident.“This investigation is still ongoing and although there are strong leads in the case we are still encouraging anyone with information to contact Detective Lopez ...

Cyware | March 07, 2020

Ransomware has been one of the most prolific cyber threats in recent years and it is unlikely that the menace due to this malware will stop any time soon. The first ransomware attack The first instance of ransomware was observed in December 1989. Tracked as AIDS trojan, the ransomware was introduced to the world after it infected 20,000 floppy disks of delegates who had attended the World Health Organization’s AIDS conference in Stockholm.The disk contained malicious code that hid f...

Data Security

prnewswire | February 22, 2021

Westcoast Limited, a main UK wholesaler of IT items and administrations with over £3 billion in yearly incomes, today declared a circulation concurrence with AppGuard, a worldwide endpoint security supplier that shields associations from cyberattacks by disturbing malware from causing hurt. Under the understanding, Westcoast will appropriate AppGuard's malware interruption innovation in the U.K. also, Northern Europe districts, further extending its obligation to empower...