In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, new threats emerge every day. Our team at Avast recently discovered a series of malicious browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store that are spreading adware and hijacked search results. These are…
What’s on your computer right now?
Let’s make a list. Start with every work-related document you’ve used or created in the last six months. After that, perhaps your monthly budgets, pictures from your last vacation, all your passwords (…
Jan,* an Avast threat researcher, is a huge football fan (soccer, to any Americans reading), and he’s always trying to find ways to stream games that are airing outside of his native Czech Republic. But during the first matches of the UEFA Cha…
The acronym CIO is sometimes understood to stand for “Career Is Over,” and here’s why: Business leaders in charge of information technology are not only tasked with driving automation, productivity, business intelligence, digitization, and clo…
Picture yourself in a position where you’re in charge of approving and paying capital expenses for a big-name company worth tens of billions of dollars.
Web3, often described as the next generation of the internet, promises a more decentralized and secure online experience. One of the key components of Web3 is the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer (P2P) storage solution that al…
Web3, often described as the next generation of the internet, promises a more decentralized and secure online experience. One of the key components of Web3 is the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer (P2P) storage solution that al…
At the end of 2022, the world was wrapping up a year that saw — among other major events — the unofficial end of the Covid-19 pandemic, the start of the war in Ukraine, and the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
The first quarter of 2023 saw a notable rise in cyberattacks targeting trust in established tech brands Microsoft and Adobe, according to the Avast Q1 2023 Threat Report. The report also revealed a 40% increase in the share of phishing and smi…