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Blockchain & Fraud Prevention: Strategies to overcome the cryptocurrency scam

Vijay Yadav / 4 years
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6 min read

What is Cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrency is a type of digital currency that generally only exists electronically. There is no physical coin or bill unless you use a service to cash in cryptocurrency for a physical token. You usually exchange cryptocurrency with someone online, with your phone or computer, without using an intermediary like a bank. Bitcoin […]

What you need to know about the BazarLoader Malware?

Anjali Raut / 4 years
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3 min read

At the start of February 2021, Bazarloader malware was in the news about its mechanism of delivering the initial attack vector. It tricks a victim into connecting with a fake call where a threat actor asks to download malicious excel attachments from the portal to infect them. We recently observed that its delivery mechanism is […]

Sextortion Scam: Blackmail scam emails that demand Bitcoin

Ayush Puri / 4 years
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3 min read

What is Sextortion? Sextortion is a scam via email or any other medium to blackmail the victim and threaten to expose private data like photos, web browsing history, chat history, etc. Generally, these sextortion scammers send emails & claim that they have gained access to the victim’s device, installed a Trojan virus by logging into […]

Moving to the cloud? Learn how to manage your cyber risks on the journey to cloud transformation

Srinath Vangari / 5 years
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5 min read

Cloud adoption has witnessed exponential growth over the past few years. However, it brings forth a new set of cyber risks that endanger organizations and their customers. In the best-case scenario, these unknown cyber risks may result in increased costs, while in the worst-case scenario, these risks can lead to loss of customers, reputation, business, […]

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

Quickheal / 5 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 […]

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 […]

RockYou2021: Massive data leak of passwords on the dark web

Quickheal / 5 years
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5 min read

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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5 min read

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 […]

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 […]

Quick Heal Announces SHA-1 Deprecation for its Products

Quickheal / 5 years
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2 min read

What is SHA-1 and SHA-2, and deprecation of SHA-1? SHA-1 & SHA-2 are algorithms a certificate uses to sign binaries, and Quick Heal also signs its binaries in the products. Quick Heal has been using dual (SHA-1 & SHA-2) code-signing for its products. According to an announcement, Microsoft will no longer allow certificate providers […]

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