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Cyber robbery in the mental realm

Cybercriminal practices by scammers or robbers have supremacy to smash mental strength. A group of cyber fraudsters intend to manipulate the cognitive abilities or psychological vigor of users to destabilize and throw them into a poverty pond. They totally snatch peace, safety and emotional equilibrium of victims. Cyber attackers adopt shrewd and AI powered tactics to derail the mental health of humans just for financial gain. They attack vulnerabilities of users such as fear, trust, and interest and harm them emotionally for a long time. Individuals who undergo cyber fraud may exhibit symptoms of anxiety, depression, and sometimes PTSD. Victims of cybercrimes are deeply upset and unable to live normal lives because of disgraceful feelings like shame, embarrassment, and violation. Such psychological conditions may have negative repercussions in mental These experiences can lead to severe mental health issues, including health that include anxiety, paranoia, and in strange cases use...

Gear up to safeguard against Digital blackmailing

Cyber technology is a tempting and rapidly developing armature for a broad range of users to grab jobs, smooth workout and run their life hassle-free. Cyber world erupts as a meaning of life. Global people may ruin their professional setup or personal living with the invasion of cyber criminals . On the personal front, digital blackmailing is mounting with brisk tempo. It poses severe challenges for businesses and threatens the mental health of people.  Victims may undergo severe harassment, emotional agony, character assassination and monetary shortfall. Companies trapped under online blackmailing may lose their esteemed customers, reputational damage of brand and potential face several legal issues. Digital blackmailing is categorized as a heinous cyber offence committed by scammers through hacking sensitive data, or private content. These hackers terrorize persons to leak personal videos or information in refusal to pay a ransom . Blackmailers use shrewd techniques of man...

Endangering brain of AI powered company: Gruesome Cyber poisoning and key safeguards

Cyber threat is a major economic challenge to growing as well as well-established companies even though they install network layers of defensive technologies. In the present trading system, AI-powered companies are in the forefront for raising funds and gaining economic prosperity. To accelerate business and show brand presence in the global market, companies based on AI technologies are highly vulnerable to cyber threats . Cyber robbers devise smart plans to ruin the brain of the company (the AI model ) which further derail the server or database. Cyber security attacks on enterprises lead to breach in confidential data, trust and money. Key cyber security breaks in the form of Malicious code , application backdoors and lack of security functionality. Companies running with the support of AI systems must address such issues in security assessment. AI led companies are in a high-risk zone of Data Poisoning at training time. Cyber hackers use an astute trick to access the dataset...

Cyber insurance: Shielding ring for online users/ companies

Digital landscape is highly vulnerable to cyber threats . personal data, smart devices, and financial accounts of organizations may be compromised through internet-based frauds. Obtaining cyber insurance is a superb policy to kill the emerging challenges of cyber worlds such phishing , malware and unauthorized access to sensitive data of individuals as well as companies. Cyber insurance, also termed as personal cyber liability insurance, is a cyber fraud protection for users and organizations to get relief from financial crisis, tarnished reputation and accountabilities from major cyber incidents. In the progressively internet-based operations in small and giant enterprises, constant cyber threats ruin the fiscal and technical system. Cyber insurance shifts the threatening part from user to the insurer through taking proactive cybersecurity measures . Cyber insurance provides several schemes to guard business operations, sensitive data and technical systems from cyber fraudulent ac...

Vigilant initiatives of gamers to deal with evolving cyber threats

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Gamers are in a risky zone while using digital platforms playing various games. They need to explore a secure network and a VPN to avoid any cyber threats. Cyber security professionals advised that gamers must avoid  Using public Wi-Fi or shared devices to reveal their data to hackers or spies. A VPN can encrypt traffic and mask a user's IP address which may challenge cyber swindlers to track or intercept online actions. Players must shield the digital environment through strong Cybersecurity to expose personal information to cyber crooks, prevent duplication, protect game assets, and maintain the honesty and consistency of online gaming daisies. During online gaming, players may undergo several cyber scams such as phishing scams and social engineering tactics by cyber attackers to steal sensitive data and gaming assets. Phishing attacks are common tactics used by cybercriminals to deceive gamers such as creating fake emails or websites that resemble actual gaming companie...

Risk of Botnet attack in cyber world

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Cyber technology has a magnificent contribution in the companies for rocketing high success. Parallelly, the cyber regime is constantly under the grip of shrewd enemies who create brainly plans to crash the cyber activities on electronic devices. Botnet attacks are a fresh and intense annoying threat in the cyber world. Simply asserting, bot is software program, execute automated task faster on internet whereas botnet is constellation of electronic devices like computers, mobile phones which can be a target of cyber criminals to control remotely the operation by infecting with malware . These are named as bot herder . When bot herder gains full control over a group of electronic devices, then these are known as zombie . In Botnet attack, cyber criminals hijack internet-connected devices installed with malicious codes and perform threatening cybercrime such as stealing sensitive data, DDoS (Distributed denial of service), data breach , and spam attack . Once a cybercriminal (or...

Cyber forensic is key safeguard process to investigate data breach in companies

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Cyber world is severely scuffling from persistent cyber threats that grimly impact the businesses of giant companies.  In the era of digitalization, cyber-attacks can be curbed through effective initiative from cyber experts. To protect valuable and sensitive data,  cyber forensics serve as a decisive role to fail the mission of cyber fraudsters .   Cyber forensics is a process of identification, collection, analysis and presentation of digital evidence to investigate the cyber-attacks.  Main purpose of Digital Forensics in progressive companies and startups is to investigate emerging issues related to digital operations, data breaches and cyber-attacks. In case of data breach, digital forensic experts perform thorough examination of the source of the breach, kind of data stolen, and the employees or agencies involved in data manipulation.   A cyber forensic professional enquires deeply the different sources responsible for data breach such as ph...

Keep close eye on fake social media profile for healthy and safe interaction

  Digital innovation is a wonder for humans to cross the geographical boundaries without physical voyage. Presently, multiple social media apps are available to connect people nestled in different global locations. Living in the cyber world also offers threats and challenges. Cyber fraudsters entered into the cyber world to breach the identity of users and have grim repercussions. Whenever working in a cyber environment , users must be well equipped with knowledge, regulations and vigilant to detect any deceitful activity. Cyber crooks are very smart to hoax innocent users through creating fake or clone profiles and add attractive features in their account. Numerous social media sites open a grand avenue for users to transform their career and personal living. Through a cautious approach, users can verify fake accounts used for business or expanding social connection inline. Effective strategies in using social media sites : Users interact with other internet friends o...

Train employees to arrest the Social Engineering Attacks

Cyber technology is empowering companies to transform the business landscape and speedily approach the people around the globe to chase giant fiscal objectives. Smart technical features of cyberspace offer dangerous boulevards to cyber offenders to disrupt the function of enterprises.  These cyber-attacks may be insider or outside fraudsters. One of the cybercrimes rapidly growing in enterprises today is social engineering attacks. Social engineering fraudsters adopt astute tactics of phishing , spear phishing, and identity theft to steal sensitive data of companies. To execute social engineering fraud, offenders psychologically influence the innocent users to commit some security errors. As a result, they extract sensitive data of companies such as passwords, credit card numbers, or personal information.  In Social engineering attacks, hackers briskly play with the emotions of employees such as fear, curiosity, gluttony, annoyance. Baiting is the most common social engin...

Digging out the secret of Automotive Hacking and preventive techniques

Incalculable changes are occurring in the technological field which has an immense influence on daily lives of the populace all around the world. Such Sweeping technological transformation modernizing the automotive industry. Wireless communication, information technology and Internet of Things (IoT) are used in vehicles to provide good experience, safe driving and comfortable journey as compared to previous transportation modes. In the track of revolutionizing the automotive industry, threats of cyber-attacks and hacking are increasing.  Currently, cars are well equipped with attractive automatic features. Many car manufacturers have launched Self-driving cars on the road. Smartphones are embedded into keys.  They have also designed auto-braking mechanisms to evade sudden road accidents. Though technical innovation offers excellent driving experience and safety at road, parallelly, advanced technical features are exposed to cyber-attacks. Well-equipped vehicles control...