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Scareware is a form of malware which uses social engineering to cause shock, anxiety, or the perception of a threat in order to manipulate users into buying unwanted software [1] (or products).
Scareware: Claims your computer has a virus, then “scares” you to pay for fake antivirus software to remove it. Keylogging and screen scraping: Secretly records every keystroke and/or your ...
An early example that gained infamy was SpySheriff and its clones, [a] such as Nava Shield. With the rise of cyber-criminals and a black market with thousands of organizations and individuals trading exploits, malware, virtual assets, and credentials, rogue security software has become one of the most lucrative criminal operations.
Scareware is another type of social engineering ploy that displays a pop-up alert that attempts to create a sense of urgency and panic by notifying the user that viruses have infected their computer or has been hacked. The alert instructs the user to click on its link to enter information or download software that will remedy the issue when, in ...
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An after action report (or AAR) is any form of retrospective analysis on a given sequence of goal-oriented actions previously undertaken, generally by the author themselves. The two principal forms of AARs are the literary AAR, intended for recreational use, and the analytical AAR, exercised as part of a process of performance evaluation and ...
In computer security, a threat is a potential negative action or event enabled by a vulnerability that results in an unwanted impact to a computer system or application.. A threat can be either a negative "intentional" event (i.e. hacking: an individual cracker or a criminal organization) or an "accidental" negative event (e.g. the possibility of a computer malfunctioning, or the possibility ...
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