{"id":10180,"date":"2017-10-30T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/30\/news-3953\/"},"modified":"2017-10-30T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:10:48","slug":"news-3953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/30\/news-3953\/","title":{"rendered":"Know your threats: the nine scariest malware monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Wendy Zamora| Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 20:31:14 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a particularly ghoulish year in cybersecurity, from Russian hacks to ransomware outbreaks. The bad boogey man in the black hoodie has been pulling one over the collective public. It&#8217;s dark and creepy, but users refuse to stop peeking behind the door.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s enough to make even the most grizzled IT admin run for the hills. Wait&#8230;no. Avoid the hills. They have eyes.<\/p>\n<p>So instead of turning tail at the first sign of trouble, you can overcome your cybersecurity fears by facing them. Look at these nine scariest malware monsters in the eyes (or eye), and let them know you&#8217;re onto them. The more you know about their devious ways, the better you can protect yourself from their attacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KNOW_YOUR_THREATS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for the full-size version.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20318\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KNOW_YOUR_THREATS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2778\" height=\"14985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KNOW_YOUR_THREATS.jpg 2778w, https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KNOW_YOUR_THREATS-111x600.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2778px) 100vw, 2778px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/10\/know-threats-scariest-malware-monsters\/\">Know your threats: the nine scariest malware monsters<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/10\/know-threats-scariest-malware-monsters\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Wendy Zamora| Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 20:31:14 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellpadding='10'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='center'><a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/10\/know-threats-scariest-malware-monsters\/' title='Know your threats: the nine scariest malware monsters'><img src='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ransomware_crop.png' border='0'  width='300px'  \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='left'>It&#8217;s been a particularly ghoulish year in cybersecurity, from Russian hacks to ransomware outbreaks. The bad boogey man in the black hoodie has been pulling one over the collective public. It&#8217;s dark and creepy, but users refuse to stop peeking behind the door. It&#8217;s enough to make even the most grizzled IT admin run for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/101\/\" rel=\"category tag\">101<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/101\/infographics\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Infographics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/botnets\/\" rel=\"tag\">botnets<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/malspam\/\" rel=\"tag\">malspam<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/malware\/\" rel=\"tag\">malware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/ransomware\/\" rel=\"tag\">ransomware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/scariest-malware\/\" rel=\"tag\">scariest malware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/threats\/\" rel=\"tag\">threats<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/trojans\/\" rel=\"tag\">Trojans<\/a><\/p>\n<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td align=right>\n<p><b>(<a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/10\/know-threats-scariest-malware-monsters\/' title='Know your threats: the nine scariest malware monsters'>Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/10\/know-threats-scariest-malware-monsters\/\">Know your threats: the nine scariest malware monsters<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[10519,11195,5500,11928,3764,3765,16226,10438,12269],"class_list":["post-10180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-10519","tag-botnets","tag-infographics","tag-malspam","tag-malware","tag-ransomware","tag-scariest-malware","tag-threats","tag-trojans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}