A business owner recently posted on Facebook about how his company's computer was infected with a "botnet", which hackers exploited to their advantage, causing the business to suffer losses. The post quickly received thousands of shares, comments and attention, including both praise and criticism.
Screenshot of post about security incident attracts much attention
"In fact, Mr. T's computer was infected with a type of malware, not a botnet. Malware generally comes in many forms, from trojans, rootkits, keyloggers, or the most common type of ransomware today. Botnet is a network of ghost computers, also known as zombies, that are manipulated by hackers through vulnerabilities or malware hidden in the computer," said Mr. Ngo Tran Vu, Director of NTS Security.
"With the popularity of the internet today, criminals have many ways to spread malware to new users, or those who are indifferent to the security of their devices. Popular channels for criminals to find victims are blogs, forums, and social networks that share free pirated resources. And of course, nothing is free, they always give away surprise gifts that the victims do not know about," said Mr. Vu.
In Mr. T's story, downloading pirated graphics software (cracked, cracked software) is an action that creates risks to his property, including issues with software copyright and security.
Small and medium-sized businesses need to be wary of pirated software.
Small businesses often do not take software copyright seriously, and want to use "genuine" software for free, so they download specialized software for daily work, from pre-packaged Windows operating systems (Ghost, Iso), Office suites or popular high-end graphics and multimedia software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, AutoCAD, Vegas Pro... or even small-scale ones such as file compression tools WinZip, WinRAR, IDM download tools.
Many malicious codes are attached by hackers to unlicensed software.
Most of them are available on "underground" websites or torrent networks, free sharing social networks, users are required to turn off security tools on their computers such as Anti-virus or Internet Security (if any) to download. Because these tools can scan for malware hidden in cracking tools such as Keygen, Patch, Crack or files that are already infected with malware.
In fact, malware embedded in pirated software is becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect by ordinary users. A new variant of the HotRat malware recorded in August continues to rampage in Southeast Asia through the widespread use of pirated software in the region.
Mr. Vu said that comprehensive protection solutions such as Kaspersky Total Security are very useful for individual users or small businesses, however, larger businesses should choose security solutions that combine data backup because data is a very valuable asset that is currently targeted by ransomware.
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