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8 Tips to protect your devices from malware attacks

Webroot

Spyware : Secretly monitors your online behavior and shares your personal information. Adware : Installs itself on your device and displays unwanted online advertisements and pop-ups. These attacks are aimed at consumers, small businesses and enterprises.

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Top 9 Cybersecurity Challenges SMEs Currently Face

Responsible Cyber

If an employee is tricked by a malicious link in a phishing email, they might unleash a ransomware attack on their small business. Once access is gained, ransomware quickly locks down business computers as it spreads across a network. Until a ransom is paid, businesses will be unable to access critical files and services.

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Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

Krebs on Security

It is allowed to host: ordinary sites, doorway pages, satellites, codecs, adware, tds, warez, pharma, spyware, exploits, zeus, IRC, etc. Here’s a snippet from one of Yalishanda’s advertisements to a cybercrime forum in 2011, when he was running a bulletproof service under the domain real-hosting[.]biz: and Europe.