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Sakshat Karkare / 12 years
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Target’s Customers Targeted by Hackers during Holiday Shopping American retailing company, Target has confirmed a hacking incident that exposed its customers’ data. This data includes names, credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates and even security codes. The company stated that customers who did ‘physical’ (not online) shopping between November 27 and December 15, […]

Latest IT Security News, Alerts Updates for the Week

Sakshat Karkare / 12 years
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Facebook users beware! You may have a phishing and malware combo attack coming your way! There’s a new threat doing the rounds on the Internet. And this time, it is a combo of phishing and malware attack. You might receive a message from a Facebook friend informing that his or one of his friends’ car […]

What is Ransomware and How to remove it using Quick Heal?

Sakshat Karkare / 12 years
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Ransomware is called so, because it holds the victim’s computer hostage in return for money (ransom) from the user. This post tells you about ransomware, and how Quick Heal helps you deal with it. What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a sophisticated malware. It hijacks the victim’s system and renders it nonfunctional. The malware prevents the […]

Manhattan Court charges creators of Gozi, the world’s most destructive financial virus

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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In a landmark development for the cyber security world, three cyber criminals have been charged in a Federal Manhattan Court in New York for stealing ‘tens of millions of dollars’ from online banking customers. The hackers were guilty of running Gozi, one of the most advanced and financially destructive viruses ever seen in the world. […]

Security news updates from the week gone by

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Bangalore biggest target of cyber crimes in 2012 The cyber criminal cell at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has reported that out of all Indian cities, Bangalore faced the most number of cyber crimes in 2012. Close to 400 reported incidents have been witnessed till the end of November in the state of Karnataka. Udupi […]

How to remove the FBI Moneypak virus from an infected machine

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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3 min read

Last month we had highlighted the growing threat of a fake FBI notice in the United States which turned out to be a form of ‘Ransomware’. This ransomware was called Moneypak since it demanded a payment of a sum of money through a prepaid Moneypak credit card. In this scenario, the malware locked up a […]

Security news updates from the last week

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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AntiSec collects 12 million Apple UDIDs from hacked FBI laptop, FBI denies it! AntiSec, a hacker group associated with Anonymous, claimed to have gotten their hands on 12 million Apple UDIDs from a hacked FBI laptop. They published 1 million of these IDs to validate their claim. However, the FBI said that no laptop of […]

Fake FBI ransomware demands money to unlock machines

Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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2 min read

A new variant of ransomware has been spotted in the United States. We would like to bring this to the notice of our US based customers and also inform users from other geographical locations. What is ransomware? Ransomware is a potent form of malware that locks down an infected machine and disallows its user from […]