Holiday Stress Can Make You More Careless Online
Holiday stress. Every year, come November, my resting heart rate starts to rise: the festive season is approaching. Not only...
Preventing WebCobra Malware From Slithering Onto Your System
Cryptocurrency mining is the way transactions are verified and added to the public ledger, a database of all the transactions...
WebCobra Malware Uses Victims’ Computers to Mine Cryptocurrency
McAfee Labs researchers have discovered new Russian malware, dubbed WebCobra, which harnesses victims’ computing power to mine for cryptocurrencies.
IoT Lockdown: Ways to Secure Your Family’s Digital Home and Lifestyle
If you took an inventory of your digital possessions chances are, most of your life — everything from phones to...
Kraken Ransomware Emerges from the Depths: How to Tame the Beast
Look out, someone has released the Kraken — or at least a ransomware strain named after it. Kraken Cryptor ransomware...
Fallout Exploit Kit Releases the Kraken Ransomware on Its Victims
Alexandr Solad and Daniel Hatheway of Recorded Future are coauthors of this post. Read Recorded Future’s version of this analysis. ...
Ghouls of the Internet: Protecting Your Family from Scareware and Ransomware
It’s the middle of a workday. While researching a project, a random ad pops up on your computer screen alerting...
Have You Talked to Your Kids About a Career in Cybersecurity?
Here’s some cool trivia for you: What profession currently has a zero-percent unemployment rate, pays an average of $116,000 a...
Ransomware GandCrab Version 5 Partners With Crypter Service for Obfuscation
The GandCrab ransomware, which first appeared in January, has been updated rapidly during its short life, with Version 5.0.2 appearing...
#CyberAware: Will You Help Make the Internet a Safe Place for Families?
Don’t we all kinda secretly hope, even pretend, that our biggest fears are in the process of remedying themselves? Like...
