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MY TAKE: How consumer-grade VPNs are enabling individuals to do DIY security

The Last Watchdog

I’ve written this countless times: keep your antivirus updated, click judiciously, practice good password hygiene. VPN subscriptions surge every time there’s a Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal or a headline-grabbing identity theft caper, like the unemployment payments hacks that swept across the U.S. percent ten years ago.

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Compare Antivirus Software 2025: Bitdefender vs ESET

eSecurity Planet

An antivirus can provide peace of mind for users worried about accidentally encountering malware while scrolling online. A good antivirus can successfully detect and, in some cases, remove malware before it can seriously damage your device. per year for the first year; $109.99 in subsequent years $69.99

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A previously undetected FIN7 BIOLOAD loader drops new Carbanak Backdoor

Security Affairs

In August 2018, three members of the notorious cybercrime gang have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, computer hacking, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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How to manage the security risk of remote working

CyberSecurity Insiders

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) the number of data breaches reported in 2021 eclipsed that of 2020 by as early as October. Even prior to the pandemic, back in 2018, IBM revealed a startling 424% year-on-year increase in data breaches due to cloud misconfigurations caused by human error.

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FIN7 Hackers group is back with a new loader and a new RAT

Security Affairs

In August 2018, three members of the notorious cybercrime gang have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, computer hacking, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. Fin7 is suspected to have hit more than 100 US companies, most of them in the restaurant, hospitality, and industries.

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Malvertising Campaign Targets IoT Devices: GeoEdge

eSecurity Planet

billion in 2018. Threat actors have the capability to silently exploit millions of user endpoints without interacting with web page elements to carry out attacks such as ransomware delivery, identity theft, crypto mining or other forms of criminal monetization.”. For users, antivirus [and] firewalls are not sufficient,” he said.

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Zero-Day Exploits in Social Media – The rise of unpatched vulnerabilities on platforms like WhatsApp

Hacker's King

A zero-day exploit is a type of cyberattack that takes advantage of a security weakness in software that the developer or antivirus programs don’t know about yet. A related threat is zero-day malware , which is a virus that antivirus software can’t detect yet because it doesn’t have the necessary signatures to block it.

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