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From pranks to APTs: How remote access Trojans became a major security threat

Nov

2020

What is a RAT? In the late 1990s, when the internet was still young, it was common for tech-savvy kids to scare their friends by controlling their PCs remotely. They would eject the CD tray, swap the mouse buttons, or change the desktop colors. To the unwitting user, it looked like a ghost was taking […]

Category Cyber-crime Malware Written by Csoonline 0 Comments

Insider threats in your work inbox

Sep

2017

Recently, our friends at Barracuda found a new phishing campaign that banks on the popularity of cloud services used in most businesses, such as Microsoft Office 365. According to their blog post, this latest scheme takes advantage of the natural trust employees place on messages they receive from colleagues using the correct email address. Dear […]

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Businesses most at risk from new breed of ransomware

Aug

2017

While ransomware has long been one of the main cyber threats to businesses, the past number of months have seen organizations more exposed than ever. Symantec’s latest research paper on ransomware has found that businesses were the main victims of the WannaCry and Petya outbreaks, with corporate networks the ideal breeding ground for this new […]

Category Hacker Security Written by Symantec 0 Comments

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