What Is A Malware?

What Is A Malware?

  April 04, 2020

What Is A Malware? How Does Malware Work? 

A Malware is a special type of program, designed to harm your machine. A Malware can steal data from your device or system. It can also hijack your device or system. There are different types of Malware: 

Spyware: 

A spyware is designed to spy your device or system and steal data from it. Spyware can steal your username and passwords from your computer or mobile. It is used to leak secret data to the hacker to make their work easier. 

Adware:

And adware is designed to show ads on your device. By showing ads, the adware creator actually gets paid. It can be easily installed on an android phone and shows the user is irrelevant ads. 

Rootkit: 

Rootkit can gain access to the root of your device and install adware or other types of Malware to harm your device or to steal data from your device. 

Viruses:

Viruses can also be described as malware. A virus can harm your device, leak sensitive information from your device like username and passwords and credit card details. That's why it is the most dangerous type of Malware. 

Keyloggers:

Keyloggers are one of the most dangerous types of Malware. A Keylogger records your keystrokes. It is used to sniff usernames and passwords from your device. Suppose you have a keylogger installed on your computer and you type your username and password in Gmail or Facebook or anywhere, what a keylogger does is, it records your keystrokes and sends it to someone else so that he can easily find out your usernames and passwords. 

Malware

How can a Malware get into your device:

Downloading software from unknown sources:

if you download any software from unknown sources then there is a chance that a Malware is bound with that software. installing that software the Malware also gets installed automatically. Many times Malware is installed by inserting a pen drive or CD drive into your device that is taken from unknown sources.

Sometimes visiting harmful websites can also install Malware into your device. Have you ever seen that visiting some mobile websites causes your phone to vibrate automatically and a warning pops up that your device is infected with viruses? That is an indication that your device can really get affected. Many times there is a download button there. If you click on the download button and let the app get downloaded (thinking that it is anti-virus), surely it is a virus, hernia device.  

That's how Malware can affect your device and still sensitive information from it. Subscribe to this blog to get more updates about this topic and to stay secure from cyber threats.

Why India Needs to Have Proper Education About Internet Security

Why India Needs to Have Proper Education About Internet Security

  October 04, 2017

Why India Needs to Have Proper Education About Internet Security

Kaspersky declared that India is one of the top five most affected countries by ransomwares. And India is also the third most affected country by wannacry ransomware. If we talk about other hacking attacks India will be there in the top 10 most affected countries. Very small scale Malware, Adware, Spyware attacks also happen to India every single day. So the question comes here is what makes India so much vulnerable to all the hacking attacks.  so today we will discuss what makes India so much vulnerable to the hacking attacks:

Wannacry Ransomeware mass attack

1)  Lack of knowledge about Internet Security: 

Only a few people of India have proper knowledge about Internet Security. The majority of Internet users don't have any proper knowledge about Internet Security. In most places of India, Internet Security is totally neglected. Even some companies, businesses also totally neglect the factor of Internet Security. 99% of Indians don't even know about ethical hacking. For then hacking is only a crime and there is no such thing as ethical hacking. Most people know about hacking, but no one knows about it correctly and a very few people know how it’s done full stuff to be secured from an attack, first you have to know how the attack is done.  If you know how a hacker can still use ATM PIN, then you will be more cautious about that matter.  That’s also how the field of Internet Security works.  if you know how a  Malware or ransomware can get into your device you can be secured from it.  if you know about your vulnerability,  you can repair it. But because most people don't care about Internet Security they don't even try to know about these things. So the main reason about ransomware attack is lack of knowledge about Internet Security.

2) Visiting bad websites: 

We Indians love free things, like free movies free music and that's also why we search a lot of movie and music downloading sites.  Most of the movie the music downloading sites can get you a Malware or a ransomware.  Most of these kinds of sites you somewhere type of advertising medias.  And most of these advertising media shows you ads about some Flash Player update or some PDF downloader or some video converter. And they can automatically download Malware and install it into your device. Visiting these kinds of that website is also away a Malware or a ransomware can get into your device.
3) Not updating Windows & using pirated Windows:  
Now as I previously paid, Indians love free Things. That's also why Indians use free Windows, also known as pirated Windows. If you are using pirated Windows then you can't update it. And when you can't  update your Windows, you can't get to catch against a type of Malware.  So when a Malware attacks you, you get under its control very easily. 

4)  Not using antivirus software:

Most people don’t use any antivirus software.  So that PC is so much vulnerable to all the hacking attacks.  Free antivirus software doesn't really work so if you want to make your computer not vulnerable to all the hacking attacks you should always use paid, authentic antivirus software. 

Conclusion:

If we want to make India not vulnerable to all the worldwide hacking attacks, we have to educate people about Internet Security. Because proper knowledge about Internet Security is now so much necessary then it was before.  The stereotype media and news channels also don't forward this topic frequently, so they actually need to cover of this topic more frequently to properly educate people about Internet Security. Knowing about Internet security and ethical hacking if the only way we can save our devices from hackers.

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