If the browser suddenly leads to piquant Internet pages, the favored search engine falters or unknown programs appear on the computer, so-called adware is usually involved. But these are only the harmless symptoms, there are much greater dangers. Many free programs either come with built-in advertising or more or less secretly try to install more […]
Adware: Advertising and Viruses Through The Back Door Weiterlesen
More and more fraudsters try to lure unsuspecting Internet users to manipulated Internet sites with deceptively genuine phishing e-mails. Anyone who enters access data or passwords here has fallen into the trap. More and more perfect – more threatening. Even experts often have to look closely at phishing spam to see if it is not
Advertising on the Internet is not only annoying, slows down the page layout and increases the data volume: Sometimes banners and pop-ups even cause real dangers – exactly when so-called malvertising attacks are used. In the childhood days of the Internet, publishers put content for which they had previously demanded good money at the kiosk
Cybergangsters are usually keen on credit card data or passwords, now they have their sights set on a new target: stealing computing power, so-called cryptojacking. Hundreds of millions of Internet users have already been affected. Find out what’s behind it and how you can protect yourself. Within a year, the price of the digital currency
Cybergangsters Now Tap The Computing Power Of Computers Weiterlesen
They are available in countless variations: few are just annoying, most of them are extremely dangerous. It is easy to catch them, but it’s difficult to get rid of them: this applies to all viruses – whether they infect the human body or a computer. Where do viruses come from, what tricks they use and
Everything about viruses, malware and other pests Weiterlesen
People have been complaining about annoying online advertising for a long time. Especially it appears on Google and Facebook and leaves many of us feeling uneasy about being watched. But there is still a much more dangerous reason to steer clear of online advertising by so-called Malvertising criminals. Through so-called “Malvertising” malicious software tries to
Stowaways in Websites: Malvertising – When Malware is Lurking in Advertising Weiterlesen
