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Use Smartphones Only in Emergencies – Government Instructs Ministries to Avoid Loss of Sensitive National Data

Adithya Omanakuttan / 10 years
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Just like the private sector, the Government has been encouraging its employees to use smartphones for better collaboration within departments. This rapid adoption of smartphones and Internet services in Government organizations might lead to situations where national security could be compromised by a simple data breach. This is a concern which has recently led the […]

New Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) in Spammer’s toolkit

Sakshat Karkare / 10 years
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The Quick Heal Malware Intelligence Reporting System has made a recent observation about a CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) known as CVE-2015-2545 being actively used in an online spam campaign. The campaign begins with targeted users receiving a spam email with an attached malicious document. Below are some common attachment names used in this spam […]

Cyber Security Challenges and Emerging Reforms in the Indian Banking Sector

Antara Biswas / 10 years
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The Indian banking industry has evolved majorly in the past few years owing to technological innovations. Public and privatized banks are allotting bigger budgets towards acquiring and building IT infrastructure and have leveraged IT across all banking operations. Banks constantly face the business challenge of meeting customers’ expectations and improvising on their services and offerings. […]

Infostealer Campaign detected in the wild

Sakshat Karkare / 10 years
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2 min read

Quick Heal Threat Research Lab has recently observed an active cybercrime campaign designed to steal user info. The campaign has been noticed to make use of three keyloggers (malicious software that records information entered by a user on their computer keyboard) iSpy logger, Predator logger and Knight Logger. These software are easily available on the […]

Stay away from ‘WhatsApp Gold’ – It’s a fake app!

Sakshat Karkare / 10 years
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3 min read

If you haven’t yet heard of the ‘WhatsApp Gold’ app, you soon will. And we are here to tell you that, this is yet another scam planned by cyber crooks. Users of popular messaging app WhatsApp, are reporting about receiving a message that advertises a newly launched app called WhatsApp Gold. The message reads as […]

Have a LinkedIn account? Better change your password!

Sakshat Karkare / 10 years
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2 min read

Last week, popular business social networking site LinkedIn announced that over 100 million user passwords were compromised. This was followed by a strong advisory to users about changing their passwords. A brief flashback >> A few years ago, in 2012, LinkedIn was hit by a major hack that caused a breach of about 6.5 million […]

A Report by Quick Heal Labs on Password Stealing Malware

Sakshat Karkare / 10 years
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2 min read

Almost every computer user has more than one account for social networking sites, email accounts, bank accounts, online shopping portals, etc. And for obvious reasons, it becomes difficult for them to remember their login credentials, and this gives away to a habit of saving username and passwords in web browsers, email clients, FTP clients, etc. […]

Malware Alert! Beware of Fake Emails with the subject line ‘Amazon Order Dispatched…’

Sakshat Karkare / 10 years
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2 min read

After you are done shopping on any e-commerce website, receiving a confirmation email about your purchase is an expected thing. But, if you are receiving any such confirmation emails whose sender seems to be a popular online shopping portal and are mostly blank but contain attachment(s), then be cautious. Many users have reported about receiving […]

The New and Latest Version of Quick Heal is here!

Sakshat Karkare / 10 years
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2 min read

Our readers would be glad to know that the new and enhanced version of the Quick Heal product series is here! Based on the various feedback and suggestions received from our users across the world, we have brought in some major enhancements to this year’s product line and also introduced some new features too. The […]

Ramnit Malware: Improvising its weapons

Sakshat Karkare / 10 years
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4 min read

Ramnit was introduced as a worm into the cyber world during the end of 2010. In these few years, researchers at Quick heal Labs have observed a drastic change in the components of this malware. Malware authors of this family are continuously upgrading to adapt to the changing needs of the market. An interesting trait […]

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