Media Coverage

Trend Micro’s Dave Abramowitz discusses the White House hack attack with Bloomberg’s Alix Steel on “Street Smart.”

Sextortion—enticing victims to send naked or sexually suggestive pictures of themselves, which are then used to blackmail them for money or sexual favors—is not a new digital phenomenon. But the methods of accomplishing it are evolving. A new Android app has been developed expressly for use by sextortionist-minded hackers.

Times are a changing. Once a upon a time your security was all about a decent Firewall and some Anti-Virus and you were good to go. Yeah, not so much any more. Signature based Anti-Virus, as a tool to protect you from infection, is pretty much useless in this day and age. Why, because hackers and the techniques they use to infect you have evolved.

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The threat landscape is constantly changing, and so is the information deemed valuable to hackers. While 2014 was the so-called year of the breach, when consumer card data was the hottest commodity, 2015 has been marked by more attacks aimed at compromising personally identifiable information and corporate intellectual property.