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Kovter: the fileless click fraud malware

  • Quick Heal Security Labs / 10 years
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  • 1 min read

Kovter Trojan has been in effect since 2013. Being fileless, Kovter is different and stealthier than other Trojan families. It employs various anti-debugging, anti-VM, anti-sandboxing techniques, and has checks for identification of different security analysis tools. It uses different encryption techniques for different purposes. Like other Trojans, Kovter gathers user data and sends it to […]

How Point of Sale (PoS) Malware Steals Credit Card Data

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 11 years
  • 79
  • 4 min read

The Quick Heal Quarterly Threat Report for the second quarter of 2015 indicated a massive rise in the number of malware samples that afflicted the Windows platform across the world. This trend can be attributed to the fact that malware authors have started propagating their malicious software variants to all corners of the globe, and […]