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Phishing – What is Phishing and How Does it Affect Your Business?

Phishing is one of the most pervasive cyberattacks and leads to the most common forms of cybercriminal activity including business email compromise (BEC) and ransomware.1 Using Social Engineering techniques to manipulate cognitive abilities, phishing lures users into taking an action that divulges sensitive information or downloads malware. This is why

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What is Ransomware?

Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts the victim’s personal data, demanding a payment in cryptocurrencies. Payments are often difficult to trace and can even be made by individuals, so the criminals who make these demands remain anonymous. According to security research firm Symantec, ransomware attacks were once primarily

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Botnet-as-a-Service

A botnet is a network of devices—including computers, smartphones, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices—infected with malware that allows a hacker to remotely control them. Once compromised, the devices, also known as zombies, silently connect to a hacker’s central server, or Command and Control (C&C), where they await commands that

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