ransomware attacks

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks: How to keep you and your family safe

There’s a rise in ransomware attacks, and they’re becoming deadlier and more dangerous than ever! A report by Cybersecurity Ventures predicted that businesses in 2021 would fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds! The total cost of ransomware to businesses would top USD 20 billion this year. Quick Heal Threat Report Q1 2021 detected 0.35 million ransomware […]

FormBook

FormBook Malware Returns: New Variant Uses Steganography and In-Memory Loading of multiple stages to steal data

Quick Heal Security Lab has seen a sudden increase in dotnet samples which are using steganography. Initially, in the static analysis, not much information is available. It resembles some simple application going by the method name. On the dynamic side, some show the activity but another check for sandboxing environment. Apart from this, even on […]

Warzone RAT

WARZONE RAT – Beware Of The Trojan Malware Stealing Data Triggering From Various Office Documents

Warzone RAT is part of an APT campaign named “Confucius.” Confucius APT is known to target government sectors of China and a few other South Asian countries. This APT campaign was quite active around January 2021. Warzone RAT first emerged in 2018 as malware-as-a-service (MaaS) and is known for its aggressive use of “.docx” files […]