Cybersecurity and information security

Cybersecurity and information security

The challenges of investigating cybercrime and the importance of digital evidence in prosecutions.

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Cybercrime is becoming more and more of a problem in the modern world, where more and more things are done online. Because of the rise of cybercrime, police and prosecutors have had to learn new ways to investigate and prosecute crimes. Cybercrime is hard to investigate because digital evidence is easy to change or destroy, and cybercriminals can work from anywhere in the world without being seen. In this blog post, we’ll talk about how hard it is to look into cybercrime and how important digital evidence is in court cases. Problems of investigating cybercrime Finding the person who did …

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Shell DDoS Malware Attacks Linux SSH Servers That Are Not Well-Managed

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A new malware campaign called ShellBot targets poorly managed Linux SSH servers. According to an AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC) report, ShellBot, also known as PerlBot, is a DDoS Bot malware created in Perl that connects with the C&C server over IRC. ShellBot has been attacking Linux systems for years despite being old malware. Desktop malware attacks often occur through online browsers or email attachments. Threat actors often spread malware as legitimate software to trick consumers into installing it. Threat actors utilise several strategies to assault server systems. These attacks target poorly managed or unpatched services. RDP and SQL …

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