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A Trojan horse virus, is a kind of malicious software that poses as an authentic, functional program to deceive you into installing it.
Protecting internet-connected hardware, software, and data systems from online threats is known as cybersecurity. These threats include ransomware, data theft, and phishing schemes. Cybersecurity includes everything from ensuring the effective operation of IT systems to protecting sensitive data.
When a scammer obtains access to a legit user’s account in order to conduct unauthorized transactions, this is known as account takeover fraud.
Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated.Attackers are always coming up with new ways to get past security measures, steal confidential information, or interfere with essential services.
More dispersed, ransomware gangs are more difficult to track down, and they frequently combine ideological goals with financially driven attacks.Others use the pretense of hacktivism to target corporations and governments in order to make political statements as well as demand ransom.
After the terror attack in Pahalgam, Maharashtra Cyber has identified that seven Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups were behind more than 15 lakh cyberattacks against vital infrastructure websites throughout India.Only 150 attacks were successful out of them, officials reported on Monday.
With 332 victims, the Clop ransomware group was the most notorious in February 2025.Before releasing data that it claims to have hacked, the Russian ransomware group Clop is infamous for demanding multimillion-dollar payments from its victims.
Types of cyber crime:Identity fraud is when someone uses and steals personal information. Theft of credit card information or financial data theft and selling. Cyberextortion is an illegal method of demanding money to prevent a threatened attack.
Phishing websites are frequently created by cybercriminals to seem a lot like real bank websites. They then circulate these fake links using SMS, social media, email, and SMS. Never click on links that you are unfamiliar with or unvarified.
ফিশিং ওয়েবসাইটগুলি প্রায়শই সাইবার অপরাধীদের দ্বারা তৈরি করা হয় যাতে অনেকটা বাস্তব ব্যাঙ্কের ওয়েবসাইটের মতো দেখা যায়। তারপরে তারা এসএমএস, সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া, ইমেল এবং এসএমএস ব্যবহার করে এই জাল লিঙ্কগুলিকে প্রচার করে। আপনি যে লিঙ্কগুলি অপরিচিত বা স্বল্প পরিচিত সেই লিঙ্কগুলিতে কখনই ক্লিক করবেন না।