Social Engineering

CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report

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Acrobat CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report
Organizational Author: CrowdStrike
Source: https://www.crowdstrike.com

YEAR OF THE EVASIVE ADVERSARY

The world is operating in the agentic era. Artificial intelligence is embedded across the modern enterprise. Agents write code, analyze data, orchestrate workflows, and make decisions at machine speed. Every layer of the enterprise is becoming faster and more automated.

The adversary is operating in the agentic era as well. In 2025, AI-enabled adversaries increased attacks by 89% year-over-year. AI accelerated phishing and automated reconnaissance, shortening the time from initial access to impact. It elevated less sophisticated threat actors and amplified the most advanced ones. It compressed the time between intent and execution.

AI has also introduced a new dimension of risk: adversaries targeting the very AI systems Read More

Of Hacks & Keyloggers – Part 1

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Of Hacks & Keyloggers…!!! “I don’t know what happened!; I don’t remember visiting any dodgy websites, downloading any weird apps, opening any suspicious emails or attachments, let alone links!, why I am receiving these sms & email notifications from my Bank!?!?” Sounds familiar right? Come to think of it, in most cases the unsuspecting victim is being honest. That being said, I just remembered something; a previous write up revolving around one of the methods used to carry out this type of attack. It can happen to anyone, in fact I was once a victim!

 

 

What is a keylogger? 

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CryptoLocker Ransomware

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Since the discovery of the unforgiving CryptoLocker ransomware in the wild late last year, sometime in September 2012, the Internet has been gripped by one kind of a mysterious and malicious program! But what is ransomware? What is CryptoLocker really capable of? Before I explain any further, we need to understand that this deadly malware is spreading in the form of spam emails. The spam emails appear to be coming from financial institutions and contain attachments which in actual fact is the CryptoLocker ransomware.

Ransomware comprises, I quote from Wikipedia “a class of malware which restricts access to the computer system that it infects, and demands a ransom paid to the creator of the malware in order for the restriction to be removed.” Assuming the spam email recipient opens the attachment, the CryptoLocker immediately

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