Earlier this year, The Hindu reported that 9% of Indian families claim to be victims of online financial fraud. This finding was based on a survey which received nearly 32,000 responses from families located in 331 districts of India comprising 66% male respondents and 34% women. Need for AI in Digital Protection against Financial Frauds […]
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 […]
Zloader aka Terdot – a variant of the infamous Zeus banking malware is well known for aggressively using “.xls”, “.xlsx” documents as its initial vector to deliver its payload. Despite this, recently we have come across “.docm” file which is being used by Zoader family to perform its initial activity. This shows adversaries like to […]
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. […]
It is time to say goodbye to 2015 and welcome 2016. New Year wishes, greetings and celebrations are on its way. And, so are New Year resolutions and predictions. Quick Heal family wishes you a Merry Christmas and a safe and secured New Year 2016. 2015 was an eventful year for Quick Heal. The IT […]
“I dream of a Digital India where cyber security becomes an integral part of our national security. The world is so worried about cyber security. One click can change a lot of things,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of Digital India Week on July 1, 2015. Image source In his recently concluded […]