Executables on steak:
Executables took a jump last week while phishing slowed down its attack in the same period. However, the threats which have seen a peak threatens the users across internet and emails. Though there was a considerable down-growth in the number of other threats, eScan would alert its users to refrain from opening any phishing emails, suspicious document downloads or visiting unwanted websites.
Now, in the analysis of the next graph, we try to measure the scale of the issues and emphasize on the periods when the ransomware attacks were on the graph.
Ransomware attack has seen a considerable growth during mid of the week. Attackers are always on the watch to sneak into the network to encrypt the computer data. The graph shows Ransomware attack was high in the mid of the week. In the last period, criminals were targeting weekend to carry the attack, but 3rd week of March attackers carried the attack in the midweek. However, eScan’s carefully monitor the behavior of Ransomware threats and mitigate ransomware through its PBAE technology.
Solution:
- Keep your antivirus software updated constantly, this will protect you from all types of threats from the network
- Make sure you download apps and updates from Google play store or official websites.
- Download apps from the trusted site and do check the user ratings on it before you download
- Make sure all the basic softer on your system is up-to-date like Oracle, Java, and Adobe.
- Follow the 3-D security policy in organizations, Understand Requirements to decide on a suitable security policy, train your staff on the policy and finally implement the policy.
- Make sure you either implement MailScan at gateway level or enable Mail Anti-virus on the endpoint in order to block extensions such as *.EXE, *.SCR, *.JS, *.VBE etc. These attachments would infect your system.
- Check emails only if trust the source.
- eScanAV Anti-Virus Toolkit (MWAV) is a FREE utility that enables you to scan and clean Viruses, Spyware, Adware and any other Malware that may have infected your computer.
- Regularly back up all your important files.
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