According to the National Proactive Security Authority, Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) is those critical elements of infrastructure (namely assets, facilities, systems, networks or processes and the essential workers that operate and facilitate them), the loss or compromise of which could result in: a) Major detrimental impact on the availability, integrity or delivery of essential [...]
Among the oldest, and traditionally the most common form of ransomware, crypto ransomware works by finding valuable files on a system and applying encryption to them so they become unusable.
Cryptography is the science and practice of securing communication and data through the use of mathematical algorithms and protocols. Its primary goal is to protect information from unauthorized access, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation in digital communications and transactions. Cryptography has a long history, dating back thousands of years, but in the modern [...]
Cryptojacking is a type of cybercrime that involves a hacker co-opting a victim’s computing power to generate cryptocurrency on the attacker’s behalf. The motive for these types of attacks is profit, which is usually extremely effective as it is completely hidden from users and difficult to detect. Hackers use this method instead of having [...]
