The sheer convenience of shopping and banking with mobile phones has made it an exceedingly popular device for digital transactions. According to a KPMG report, digital payments are estimated to see a CAGR of 12.7 percent in the number of non-cash transactions by 2021. The growth is being driven by India which will see a […]
Since last two days, the Internet is rife with news around a critical remote code execution vulnerability in SMBv3.1.1 compression mechanism. Today, on 12th March 2020 Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-band patch to address this vulnerability. As per Microsoft release information, it’s a remote code execution vulnerability in the way that the Microsoft Server […]
The video gaming industry has become the foremost entertainment medium worldwide as evidenced by its valuation. The market is estimated to reach an estimated $179.1 billion by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 6.4% from 2019 to 2024. And yet, perhaps because of its denotation as an ‘entertainment’ medium, the video game industry doesn’t always […]
All of us, at some point in time, must have heard the story of Wolf and the flock of sheep. The fooling trick used by the wicked wolf of pretending to be a sheep is still in use by many malware authors. They pretend to be genuine processes to achieve their villainy activities. Such a […]
Today, almost every computer user leverages a variety of web browsers to surf the internet — Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari are some of the popular browsers in use in recent times. It is very important to configure internet browser(s) in a secure way because vulnerable web browser(s) can lead to various […]
Ransomware authors keep exploring new ways to test their strengths against various malware evasion techniques. The ransomware known as “Ouroboros” is intensifying its footprint in the field by bringing more and more advancements in its behavior as it updates its version. This analysis provides the behaviour of version 6, few earlier variants of it and […]
Quick Heal Security Labs recently came across a variant of Ryuk Ransomware which contains an additional feature of identifying and encrypting systems in a Local Area Network (LAN). This sample targets the systems which are present in sleep as well as the online state in the LAN. This sample is packed with a custom packer. The final […]
Very recently, the Coronavirus that apparently originated from the Wuhan province in China has created pandemonium across the world creating an atmosphere of a health crisis for the global populace. As the news of the deadly Coronavirus creates waves of panic across the globe, cyberattackers are lurking into this phenomenon as an opportunity, less of […]
In the last two days, we have received reports from Windows 7 users who have been unable to shut down or restart their PC and ran into the below error. While the exact cause of the issue is yet to be ascertained there is no official confirmation from Microsoft yet. However, our support team has […]
Introduction to IoT This blog describes one of the current disruptive technologies in the market, i.e. IoT (Internet of Things) devices. The Internet of things (IoT) is the Internet of connected physical devices, vehicles, appliances and everyday objects that can collect & share information without any intervention. Due to IoT devices, end users can easily […]