The new strategies and tactics of cybercriminals

There has been an average of eight new threat samples per second, and an increasing use of fileless malware attacks leveraging Microsoft PowerShell in the last quarter of 2017, according to the McAfee Labs Threats Report: March 2018. The Q4 spike in Bitcoin value prompted cybercriminals to focus on cryptocurrency hijacking through a variety of methods, including malicious Android apps. “The fourth quarter was defined by rapid cybercriminal adoption of newer tools and schemes—fileless malware, cryptocurrency mining, and steganography. Even tried-and-true tactics, such as ransomware campaigns, were leveraged beyond their usual means to create smoke and mirrors to distract defenders from actual attacks,” said Raj Samani, McAfee...

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Move over ransomware attacks as hackers take to cryptojacking

When it comes to increased cryptojacking activities, India is second in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region and ninth globally as hackers create a highly-profitable, new revenue stream with crypto-mining, cyber security giant Symantec said on Wednesday.According to Symantec's "Internet Security Threat Report", detection of coinminers on endpoint computers increased by a whopping 8,500% in 2017."Cryptojacking is a rising threat to cyber and personal security," Tarun Kaura, Director, Enterprise Security Product Management, APJ at Symantec, said in a statement."The massive profit incentive puts people, devices and organizations at risk of unauthorised coinminers siphoning resources from their systems,...

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Do you know the difference between viruses, trojans and malicious software? This primer should help explain it:

Playlist 02:00 / 02:21 AUTOPLAY: ON Share Fullscreen What is malware? Everything you need to know about viruses, trojans and malicious software Cyber attacks and malware are one of the biggest threats on the internet. Learn about the different types of malware - and how to avoid falling victim to attacks. What is malware? Malware is shorthand for 'malicious software'. It is software developed by cyber attackers with the intention of gaining access or causing damage to a computer or network, often while the victim remains oblivious to the fact there's been a compromise. A common alternative description of malware is 'computer virus' - although are big differences between these...

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