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Screen lockers shut off access to your computer by taking over the operating system. They deny access to the data ...

A type of ransomware where malicious actors try to extort money by threatening to take down their targets' web properties ...

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network ...

An account takeover is a situation where identity thieves, posing as you, take control over one or some of your ...

It's a cybercrime economic model that allows malware developers to earn money for their creations without the need to distribute ...

Fraudulent attempt to extract money, obtain sensitive information such as phone numbers, login credentials, or credit card details or install ...

Is the art of exploiting human psychology, rather than technical hacking techniques, to gain access to restricted areas, systems or ...

Short for “malicious software”. It is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.

Ransomware is a type of malware that blocks access to the victim’s data and threatens to publish or delete it ...