Preksha Saxena

Anydesk Software Exploited to Spread Babuk Ransomware

Preksha Saxena / 4 years
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10 min read

We generally see that ransomware attacks are deployed through exploits, unsolicited malicious emails (malspam), or malicious Microsoft Office documents. Attackers trick the unsuspecting users into enabling macros, etc. Apart from these usual attack techniques, we came across a new way of using Anydesk software fake websites to spread Babuk ransomware. Anydesk is a remote-control tool […]

Ficker – An Info-Stealer Malware that tricks people to get their passwords

Preksha Saxena / 5 years
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6 min read

Credential stealer malware is the most prevalent types of malware used in cyber-attacks. We have seen a lot of new stealer malware in the wild. The main objective of all credential stealer malware is to collect all confidential and sensitive information like user credentials and financial information. Ficker Stealer is a family of information-stealing malware […]

Maze ransomware continues to be a threat to the consumers

Preksha Saxena / 6 years
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7 min read

Maze is a recently highlighted ransomware among the ever-growing list of ransomware families. The ransomware is active from the past one year, although it came into limelight due to its new approach of publishing sensitive data of infected customers publicly. The malware uses different techniques to gain entry like the use of exploit kits or […]

Maze of Maze ransomware & its deceitful tactics

Preksha Saxena / 6 years
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7 min read

Maze is a recent highlighted ransomware among the ever-growing list of ransomware families. Maze ransomware is active from last one year, although it came into light due to its new approach of publishing sensitive data of infected customer publicly. The malware uses different techniques to gain entry like to use exploits kits or via email […]

Deep analysis of AZORult – The information exfiltrator

Preksha Saxena / 7 years
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6 min read

While the current focus in the cyberspace is on Ransomware and Cryptominers there are other prevalent threat actors silently making their way into victim’s machine in order to comprise it for malicious purpose. During the daily threat hunting task,Quick Heal Security labs came across a blocked URL by Quick Heal’s URL categorization cloud feature. Further […]

A new ransom-miner malware campaign emerging in wild!

Preksha Saxena / 8 years
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7 min read

Since the past few weeks, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing a series of interesting malware blocked at our customer end. The further analysis of the malware ‘t.exe’ revealed that the malware seems to be Trojan dropper. Interestingly, this multipurpose malware is downloading a ransomware component, a crypto-mining malware and many more. It also […]

Breed of MBR Infecting Ransomware – an analysis by Quick Heal Security Labs

Preksha Saxena / 8 years
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8 min read

Ransomware is becoming one of the most perilous cyberattack methods and also the most habitual techniques for cybercriminals to earn money. It appears to have new weapons in its arsenal over time which is invariably aimed to boost its strength and enhance its business. As encrypting the files and restricting the user access is not […]

MIRUS – a cryptomining virus

Preksha Saxena / 8 years
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4 min read

Cryptocurrencies are all the vogue now. This has resulted in the emergence of increasing cryptocurrency mining activities. Several platforms make mining services available to users. One such platform that provides JavaScript cryptocurrency miners for websites is CoinHive. Recently, we have analyzed a virus that infects user files with mining scripts. CoinHive is a popular browser-based service that […]

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