The landscape of cybercrime is vast and constantly evolving, and cybercriminals are always coming up with new and novel ways to manipulate people. Avast’s cybersecurity researchers recently uncovered one such scheme, which involves a crowdfund…
Updates for Avast version 9 — which was launched in 2014 — are being discontinued. Since we know that this change will affect the loyal Avast users who are still running version 9, we’ve put together a quick list of questions and answers to he…
Hello, fellow travelers!
As we prepare for the summer travel season, it’s crucial to remember that cybersecurity is just as important as packing your suitcase. As a cybersecurity expert with Avast, I’ve been asked to compile a comprehen…
Imagine this: You open your email and find the following message: “I am a hacker, and I’ve gained access to your operating system. I’ve been watching you for months…”
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…