Hackers Exploit Human Psychology with Virus

New Study of security threats for the third quarter Gen Digital revealed the rapid complication of the landscape threats. The main trends: an increase in attacks using social engineering, a significant increase in the number of reproaches programs and the development of new types of malicious software aimed at both desktop systems and mobile devices.

The report notes the type of attack “Hack yourself”, which over the third quarter increased by 614% compared to the previous quarter, and the total number of blocked cases exceeded 2 million. This approach uses social engineering methods in order to make users to independently perform actions that lead to infection of devices. Examples include fake

The main idea of ​​the test: to offer the user a problem that a person can easily solve, but which is incomparably difficult to solve the computer. Captcha is a trademark of the University of Carnegie Mellon, who developed a test.

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