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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. This ends up executing sketchy code that installs viruses, ransomware, spyware, or adware behind the victim's back.

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Information Stealing Malware on the Rise, Uptycs Study Shows

SecureWorld News

This demonstrates a focus on collecting data from multi-factor authentication tools. Whether this rise is part of the overall trend, a fluctuation relative to other malware activity like ransomware and spyware, or a genuine increase in this specific threat, is hard to say without more research.

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Security attacks and countermeasures

Cloud Musings

The majority of these attacks are due to hacking, fraud and social engineering. Social engineering is a methodology that enables a perpetrator to persuade or induce an individual to provide sensitive information or access to the unauthorized perpetrator. For example, in the first half of 2014, 84.6% Most Active Malware Today.

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