From the course: Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
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Malware threats
From the course: Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
Malware threats
- [Instructor] "Malware Threats." In this lesson and the upcoming lessons, it's all about malware, the different types of malware, how it propagates, how malware is built, everything malware. So let's go ahead and get started. Now in the recent years, attacks on computers and networks have increased. There have been many different types of attacks and each with different motivations and using different strategies to exploit systems. This makes the detection and protection from attacks very difficult. Attacks using malware have greatly increased. So malware concepts. Let's talk about some malware concepts and some important information that you need to know about malware. Now, of course, malware is malicious software that damages or disable our computer systems. Malware threats include viruses, worms, but most commonly used are Trojan horses. Malware can be classified into various types, viruses, worms, keyloggers, spyware, Trojan, ransomware, and other types of malicious software…
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