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FBI reports 12x surge in phishing complaints over the past 5 years

Atlas VPN's analysis reveals that phishing in the US soared over 12 times in the last five years, hitting a record 241,342 complaints in 2020. This data is provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) branch called Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

RESEARCH | 3 min read

How does browser fingerprinting work?

Browser fingerprinting is a web-tracking method that remembers and identifies users according to their devices. It is one of the data…

PRIVACY | 4 min read

macOS malware development surged by over 1,000% in 2020

According to the Atlas VPN investigation, the development of macOS malware surged by 1,092% in 2020. To be exact, 674,273 new malware samples were found in 2020, when there were only 56,556 samples detected in 2019.

RESEARCH | 2 min read

More than 16 million Covid-related cyber threats were detected in 2020

The year 2020 will be forever remembered for the Covid-19 pandemic, which swiftly overtook the world and altered our lives forever. The pandemic has also affected the cybersecurity landscape — a new wave of cyber threats emerged where criminals leveraged Covid-19 to launch attacks.

RESEARCH | 4 min read

What is PPTP? The obsolete protocol explained

Point-to-Point Tunneling (PPTP) is now a mostly obsolete network protocol, outranked by more reliable counterparts like IKEv2 or OpenVPN…

PRIVACY | 3 min read

99% of US government employees run outdated Android OSs

A staggering 99.2% of US government Android users run outdated operating systems, exposing themselves to hundreds of vulnerabilities. These figures are a massive concern since government agencies store extremely sensitive information.

RESEARCH | 2 min read

What is whitelisting?

Whitelisting is a trust-centric practice in cybersecurity. It usually refers to the creation of exceptions for a specific rule. Let’s say…

PRIVACY | 4 min read

Over 140 thousand US federal employees exposed to phishing scams in 2020

Recent estimations by the Atlas VPN research team reveal that as many as 1.45 million US government employees were potentially exposed to mobile phishing scams from January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020.

RESEARCH | 2 min read

How internet shutdowns infringe democracy and human rights

Internet shutdowns are incidents when the internet and even cellular services suddenly become inaccessible or unusable. We have witnessed…

PRIVACY | 8 min read

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