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Mitigating Ransomware Attacks: How to keep you and your family safe

  • Quickheal / 4 years
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  • 5 min read

There’s a rise in ransomware attacks, and they’re becoming deadlier and more dangerous than ever! A report by Cybersecurity Ventures predicted that businesses in 2021 would fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds! The total cost of ransomware to businesses would top USD 20 billion this year. Quick Heal Threat Report Q1 2021 detected 0.35 million ransomware […]

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FormBook Malware Returns: New Variant Uses Steganography and In-Memory Loading of multiple stages to steal data

  • Rumana Siddiqui / 5 years
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  • 9 min read

Quick Heal Security Lab has seen a sudden increase in dotnet samples which are using steganography. Initially, in the static analysis, not much information is available. It resembles some simple application going by the method name. On the dynamic side, some show the activity but another check for sandboxing environment. Apart from this, even on […]

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RockYou2021: Massive data leak of passwords on the dark web

  • Quickheal / 5 years
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  The issue of a data breach continues to plague the world of cybersecurity. What seems to be the most extensive password collection of all time has been leaked on the dark web. The source? An anonymous forum poster uploaded a 100GB TXT compilation file of stolen and leaked passwords, containing 8.4 billion entries.  Here’s everything you […]

Cobalt Strike 2021 – Analysis of Malicious PowerShell Attack Framework

  • Saurabh Sharma / 5 years
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Cobalt Strike is a widespread threat emulation tool. It is one of the most powerful network attack tools available for penetration testers in the last few years used for various attack capabilities and as a command and control framework. Recently, Cobalt Strike has been used in various ransomware campaigns like Povlsomware Ransomware,  DarkSide Ransomware. Povlsomware […]

Scam Alert Beware of Fake LinkedIn Job Offers

LinkedIn Phishing Scam: Hackers target users with fake job offers

  • Prashant Tilekar / 5 years
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  • 6 min read

LinkedIn is a popular social networking platform that is focused on professional networking and the business community. On this platform, users are focused almost entirely on making connections and finding jobs. But things are not always as they seem. Of late, LinkedIn is emerging as one of the most popular social networking sites used by […]

Ficker Stealer Malware tricks people into getting passwords

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

  • Preksha Saxena / 5 years
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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 […]

Alert! Wormable Android malware is spreading through social media applications

  • Digvijay Mane / 5 years
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  • 4 min read

Autoreply is a convenient feature through which users can send a custom message as an automatic reply for unanswered incoming email, SMS, WhatsApp messages, and more. There are many applications on Google Play Store which offers such functionality. We have recently noticed malicious applications which are abusing this particular functionality. Fig 1. Content used for […]

Fake app REVIEWS AND RATINGS

Malicious malware impacting reviews and ratings of application

  • Akshay Singla / 5 years
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  • 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 […]