Quick Heal Security Labs has come across a new ransomware with AES encryption technique that demands 0.01 Bitcoin as a ransom after encrypting the victim’s files. It’s known as Thanatos Ransomware. Thanatos is a type of a Trojan malware that spreads through malicious advertisements, phishing sites, spam emails, freeware and cracked software. In spam emails, […]
Quick Heal Security Labs has come across a new ransomware called ‘Saturn’ currently doing the rounds which upon encryption appends “. Saturn” extension to the encrypted files. Behaviour of Saturn Ransomware Upon arrival on the host machine, Saturn ransomware checks whether it is a virtual environment or has any debuggers. If these checks are satisfied, […]
Quick Heal Security Labs has recently learned about a serious vulnerability in Skype’s update installer – that’s the bad news. The worse news is, Microsoft is not going to patch the vulnerability anytime soon as this would require the updater to go through a ‘large code revision’. What is this security flaw about? Security researcher, […]
Lenovo recently released an advisory, warning customers about two critical Broadcom vulnerabilities which impact 25 models of its popular ThinkPad lineup. The Broadcom Wi-Fi chipsets used by Lenovo ThinkPad devices are affected by the CVE-2017-11120 & CVE-2017-11121 vulnerabilities. Both these issues are rated as “critical” and received a CVSS 10 score which means they are highly […]
