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Endpoint security for Mac: 3 best practices

Malwarebytes

Phishing attacks, vulnerability exploits, DDoS attacks, and much more threaten your company’s Macs at any time — and if any of them are successful, it could cost your business millions in lost productivity and information theft. And it’s not just malware you have to worry about with your Mac endpoints. OK, that sounds annoying.

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What is Malware?

Identity IQ

Gaining control of multiple computers to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against other networks. Adware is software designed to serve advertisements to you, either within your web browser or in other programs. Adware isn’t always bad. Some free apps, for instance, include adware as a way to make revenue from ads.

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The Most Common Types of Malware in 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. Malware can be categorized based on how it behaves (adware, spyware and ransomware), and how it propagates from one victim to another (viruses, worms and trojans).

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Cyber Threats to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Digital Shadows

Scams could present themselves in many forms. For instance, financially-motivated threat actors often plant in malicious URLs spoofing these events to fraudulent sites, hoping to maximize their chances of scamming naive internet users for a quick (illicit) profit.

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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

SecureList

To boost their profits and depend less on outsourcing, some groups such as Revil even scammed their affiliates , adding a backdoor capable of hijacking negotiations with victims and taking the 70% of the ransom payments that is supposed to go to the affiliates. If not ransomware, then DDoS or possibly both. Extortion on the rise.

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45 Main Cyber Security Terms Everyone Must Know

Spinone

Malware and Ransomware Adware – Software that automatically displays or downloads material when a user is offline. DDoS (denial-of-service attack) – a type of a cyber attack which makes the site user wants to visit unusable by flooding it with malicious traffic.