A man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack consists of a victim, a website the victim would like contact with (such as a bank), and the attacker. The attacker inserts themselves between the victim and the targeted website with the intention to steal…
Avast researchers have found password stealer malware, disguised as a private Fortnite server, where users can meet for a private match, and use skins for free. The malware is being heavily propagated on communications platform Discord. The…
Global conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine, often have a corresponding cyberwar that can affect digital citizens across the globe. As on-the-ground invasions persist, the effects of cyberattacks can easily expand beyond the borders of con…
“In this war, we are seeing cyberattacks from both Russia and Ukraine,” Avast Security Evangelist Luis Corrons recently commented. “And on top of that, a number of cybercriminals are taking advantage of the situation in order to scam good-w…
We observed an increased number of phishing attacks in the Ukrainian cyberspace in February, just before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The attacks we observed targeted a network infrastructure hardware producer, a domain admi…
A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) amplification attack can increase damaging effects by four billion times and stretch out the length of the attack to 14 hours. The record-breaking amplification vector comes from misconfigured serv…
Any military conflict is first and foremost a human disaster. Avast has employees in both Ukraine and Russia and is actively working to protect and sustain them as a priority. We continue to pay their full salaries and have aided the tempor…
Identity and privacy have always been a point of contention both online and offline. But while we can generally control our identity and privacy in the offline world with ease, digital identity has long been controlled by third-party entiti…
US President Joe Biden recently issued an executive order that will oversee various cryptocurrency efforts, including a study of whether there should be a virtual dollar-based cryptocoin, the efficacy of various future banking regulations f…
Avast started identifying calls for hacktivism almost as soon as the ground war in Ukraine commenced last week. Some were fraudulent, looking to capitalize on the tragedy, but others were genuine encouragement for “regular people” who want …