If anything, cybercriminals are an ambitious lot. They keep themselves busy in devising new methods to scam the Internet population. And malvertising is just one of their nefarious tricks. In this post, we will help you understand what is malvertising, how it works, and how you can protect yourself from it. What is malvertising? Derived […]
Is your smartphone not as zappy as it used to be when you bought it? If yes, then you can blame low memory space for this. When your phone runs out of memory, it refuses to take any more pics or videos, install updates or run smoothly – all obvious signs that the old boy […]
If you thought phishing emails are less dangerous, then you would be terribly wrong. According to a recent report, almost 93% of phishing emails now carry the ransomware malware. First, what is phishing? Phishing is an age-old trick used by scammers and hackers to trick people into revealing their personal and financial information. This infographic […]
Cyber espionage campaigns are not only common with government and military organizations, but they also take private firms into their inferno. More often not, the perpetrators are business rivals or disgruntled employees. At Quick Heal, we have observed a targeted attack on an online marketing firm (name withheld to protect privacy) that caters to small […]
Just like the private sector, the Government has been encouraging its employees to use smartphones for better collaboration within departments. This rapid adoption of smartphones and Internet services in Government organizations might lead to situations where national security could be compromised by a simple data breach. This is a concern which has recently led the […]
The Quick Heal Malware Intelligence Reporting System has made a recent observation about a CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) known as CVE-2015-2545 being actively used in an online spam campaign. The campaign begins with targeted users receiving a spam email with an attached malicious document. Below are some common attachment names used in this spam […]
The Indian banking industry has evolved majorly in the past few years owing to technological innovations. Public and privatized banks are allotting bigger budgets towards acquiring and building IT infrastructure and have leveraged IT across all banking operations. Banks constantly face the business challenge of meeting customers’ expectations and improvising on their services and offerings. […]
Quick Heal Threat Research Lab has recently observed an active cybercrime campaign designed to steal user info. The campaign has been noticed to make use of three keyloggers (malicious software that records information entered by a user on their computer keyboard) iSpy logger, Predator logger and Knight Logger. These software are easily available on the […]
If you haven’t yet heard of the ‘WhatsApp Gold’ app, you soon will. And we are here to tell you that, this is yet another scam planned by cyber crooks. Users of popular messaging app WhatsApp, are reporting about receiving a message that advertises a newly launched app called WhatsApp Gold. The message reads as […]
Last week, popular business social networking site LinkedIn announced that over 100 million user passwords were compromised. This was followed by a strong advisory to users about changing their passwords. A brief flashback >> A few years ago, in 2012, LinkedIn was hit by a major hack that caused a breach of about 6.5 million […]