Akshay Singla

Beware: Fake Apps posing as Open AI’s ChatGPT App

Akshay Singla / 2 years
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5 min read

Beware! Behind the face of advancing technology lies a dark underbelly – that of evolving cyber crime. Here, perpetrators continually adapt their strategies, exploiting current events, government websites, and even trusted organizations’ legitimate applications to deceive users. This sophisticated approach involves the use of trusted names and logos to entice individuals into downloading fake apps […]

BEWARE: Fake Applications are Disguised as Legitimate Ones

Akshay Singla / 3 years

5 min read

In the world of cybercrime, the tactics used by threat actors are constantly evolving, but upon close analysis of multiple instances, the modus operandi remains the same – i.e. exploitation of current events, trending news, government websites, and even legitimate applications of trusted organizations to dupe unsuspecting users. By using the names and logos of […]

Beware – Banking Trojans Using Enhanced Techniques to Spread Malware.

Akshay Singla / 4 years

4 min read

In our Open-Source Threat Hunting, Quick Heal Security Researchers encountered a banking Trojan named Aberebot capable of stealing sensitive information from infected devices, including financial and personal data. Malware authors used advanced anti-reverse engineering and obfuscation techniques to avoid detection. From our investigation, the fake malicious application requires some risky permissions, as shown in Fig […]

How Unlimited Internet Data Has Changed The Face Of Cybercrime?

Akshay Singla / 4 years

6 min read

VoLTE: Voice over LTE is a high-speed wireless communication standard for mobile phones. It has up to three times more voice and data capacity than older 3G UMTS and up to six times more than 2G GSM. With its increased data capacity, users don’t need to use the data very judiciously, and they can keep […]

Malicious malware impacting reviews and ratings of application

Akshay Singla / 5 years

7 min read

COVID-19 pandemic has confined a big part of the population indoors, doing their work and daily chores online. This has had a direct impact on mobile app usage trends, especially among on-demand mobile apps. Mobile applications have become a necessity for varied purposes, including video conferencing, communicating, attending online classes, streaming services, playing games, ordering […]

Beware of scams during this crucial time of CoronaVirus pandemic

Akshay Singla / 6 years

6 min read

Due to the CoronaVirus pandemic and in this lockdown period, people have free time to spend on mobile phones and laptops. Riding on this wave, fake message creators create fake messages with attractive offers or services on social media. We can see that a large number of fake WhatsApp messages are also being forwarded by […]

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