Vilius Petkauskas

Vilius Petkauskas

Deputy Editor

Vilius Petkauskas is the deputy editor at Cybernews, covering information security, data breaches, ransomware, and cybercrime. With 13 years of journalism experience, he specializes in investigating large-scale data breaches and explaining how cybercriminals operate. Before joining Cybernews, Vilius worked as an economics and politics journalist at IQ magazine and as a journalist and fact-checker at 15min.lt. His work has been cited by Forbes, Fox, Time, and the Guardian.

Excel app on mobile screen — NEWS

Malware increasingly spread over infected documents, HP Bromium report

lorenzo herrera p0j mE6mGo4 unsplash — EDITORIAL

The ‘1977 trinity’ and other era-defining PCs

Parcel delivery toy Fragile — SECURITY

Online payments: revenue growth matched only by increasing threats

fabio lucas aTpGSPfalzY unsplash — SECURITY

The ransomware rush of 2020: billion-dollar business, cooperative adversaries and fatal damage

retro computer — EDITORIAL

A blast from the past: the finest retro PCs people use

26 February 2021

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna — SECURITY

For threat actors, cyberinfrastructure is akin to a cash-filled vault – the head of IBM

18 February 2021

pratik gupta CNOo9ZMBqRM unsplash — PRIVACY

Is your online romance a scam? Maybe not yet

12 February 2021

System failure critical error — EDITORIAL

Otherworldly bugs: outstanding software crashes

05 February 2021

Man faces with and without beard — NEWS

Think you’ve spotted a deepfake? This tool allows you to know for sure

04 February 2021

NIX designs — EDITORIAL

The sweet fruits of hard work: the most exquisite custom-made *NIX designs

29 January 2021