BullGuard Blog

It’s not often you hear about malware that targets Apple Mac devices. Apple operating systems (OS) are proprietary which means they are locked down. At the same time Microsoft operating systems are much more common than Apple so cyber criminals naturally aim for the larger target.

In the latest, seemingly never ending series of ransomware attacks, one of Europe's biggest car dealers, Emil Frey, was hit with an attack last month. The company said it restarted commercial activity a few days after the attack and refused to comment any further, for instance on whether customer information was accessed.

With games retailing at relatively high prices, often beyond the pockets of young gamers, it’s hardly surprising that many fans turn to unlicensed copies and cracked games. But here lies a world of malware and scams.

In the last few weeks of January the internet in North Korea went down. It was intermittent but disruptive and it seemed at some points all of North Korea’s servers were offline. Suspicion fell on the US Cyber Command given that the outage happened a few days after North Korea had carried out its latest salvo of missile tests.