A popular software developed by a subsidiary of Avast were infiltrated. An unknown entity maliciously hid malware in the form of backdoor in Piriform CCleaner, a widely used cleaning utility. Piriform was acquired by Avast back in July 2017. This is the type of application used for those who are more tech-savvy to clean debris
The Wikipage of Equifax Inc. states. “Equifax is a consumer credit reporting agency. Equifax collects and aggregates information on over 800 million individual consumers and more than 88 million businesses worldwide”. Unfortunately, they’ve been breached. They lost control of almost half of the US population’s record. This may impact 143 Millions to be exact. This
Driving back home, I asked myself, where will ransomware attacks takes us next? I then read this article on Ars Technica. It is chilling but not far fetched to imagine a whole national grid being taken hostage. In the security community we often argue whether there is a need to connect SCADA systems to the Internet
