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31 tips on Internet Security you should totally follow [INFOGRAPHIC]

  • Sakshat Karkare / 8 years
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October is observed as CyberSecurity Month which is an annual campaign organized to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity. Here’s an infographic that puts together 31 tips on Internet Security that will help you protect your digital devices, identity, and personal information from all types of threats on the Internet. Click on the image […]

Evolution of jRAT JAVA Malware – An analysis by Quick Heal Security Labs

  • Pavankumar Chaudhari / 8 years
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jRAT (Java Based Remote Access Trojans) malware is not new but its activity has increased recently in the last few months and they are targeting various organizations. Per day, Quick Heal Security Labs identifies thousands of spam emails carrying weaponized JAR as attachments targeting users. These malicious JAR i.e., jRAT malware upon execution, result in […]

Analysis of recent Locky ransomware outbreak

  • Ankita Ashesh / 8 years
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Quick Heal Security Labs is observing the infamous Locky ransomware outbreak which kicked off recently in the last week of September. The outbreak started with spam email with various subjects and different attachment names. On 26th September, spam campaign delivering a new variant of Locky ransomware started. The observed commonality in this campaign was the attachments ended with ‘.7z’ […]

You won’t believe what this ransomware demands

  • Sakshat Karkare / 8 years
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When we talk about motives behind any cyberattack, it is mostly money; a case in point is the ransomware – it locks your PC or encrypts your data and demands a ransom (in Bitcoins) to let go off the computer or decrypt the data. So basically, money is the main motive behind all ransomware attacks […]

CVE-2017-8759 | .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability – An analysis by Quick Heal Security Labs

  • Pavankumar Chaudhari / 8 years
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The recent zero-day vulnerability in .NET Framework vulnerability CVE-2017-8759 enables attackers to perform a Remote Code Execution on the targeted machine. This vulnerability is found to be exploited in the wild through email spam messages loaded with malicious RTF files as an attachment. Microsoft has released a security update on September 12, 2017, to fix […]