Ransomware is commonly delivered through phishing emails or via “drive-by downloads.” Phishing emails often appear as though they have been sent from a legitimate organization or someone known to the victim and entice the user to click on a malicious link or open a malicious attachment. A “drive-by download” is a program that is automatically […]

Disabling AutoRun and AutoPlay features prevents external media infected with malicious code from automatically running on your computer.

In 2008, a very powerful variant of the infamous ‘Agent’ worm hit local computing networks of the U.S. Army central command in the Middle East. It was classified as the worst computing hack in the history of the U.S. Army. Pentagon experts took 14 months to completely remove the malware from the military network. That […]