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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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6 min read

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 […]

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 […]

Joker spyware creeps its way into Google Play Store.

Stay Alert, Joker still making its way on Google Play Store!

Digvijay Mane / 5 years
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5 min read

We recently came across 2 malicious Joker family malware applications on Google Play Store — the company was quick to remove these malicious applications from their store based on our report. These two applications, namely “Easy QR Scanner” and “Free Translator” have more than 10k installs each. What is Joker Malware? Joker is spyware which […]

Android application found on Google Play Store carrying Windows malware!

Vaibhav Billade / 6 years
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3 min read

Recently, Quick Heal Security Labs found an Android application present on the Google Play Store which was infected by Windows malware. The application is meant for Gionee SmartWatch configuration and visualizing the data through App. On further analyzing the App, we found few HTML files which were infected with Windows malware. These infected HTML files […]

CVE-2020-0796 – A “wormable” Remote Code Execution vulnerability in SMB v3

Quickheal / 6 years
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2 min read

Since last two days, the Internet is rife with news around a critical remote code execution vulnerability in SMBv3.1.1 compression mechanism. Today, on 12th March 2020 Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-band patch to address this vulnerability. As per Microsoft release information, it’s a remote code execution vulnerability in the way that the Microsoft Server […]

Ouroboros: Following A New Trend In Ransomware League

Manisha Prajapati / 6 years
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6 min read

Ransomware authors keep exploring new ways to test their strengths against various malware evasion techniques. The ransomware known as “Ouroboros” is intensifying its footprint in the field by bringing more and more advancements in its behavior as it updates its version. This analysis provides the behaviour of version 6, few earlier variants of it and […]

A Deep Dive Into Wakeup On Lan (WoL) Implementation of Ryuk

Goutam Tripathy / 6 years
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6 min read

Quick Heal Security Labs recently came across a variant of Ryuk Ransomware which contains an additional feature of identifying and encrypting systems in a Local Area Network (LAN). This sample targets the systems which are present in sleep as well as the online state in the LAN. This sample is packed with a custom packer. The final […]

Hackers are riding on the global panic pertaining to the deadly Coronavirus

Viraj Talikotkar / 6 years
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4 min read

Very recently, the Coronavirus that apparently originated from the Wuhan province in China has created pandemonium across the world creating an atmosphere of a health crisis for the global populace. As the news of the deadly Coronavirus creates waves of panic across the globe, cyberattackers are lurking into this phenomenon as an opportunity, less of […]

Trinity Miner using open ADB port to target IoT devices

Vallabh Chole / 6 years
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6 min read

In the 21st century, life is becoming smart and evolving at a fast pace. Even day to day gadgets are becoming smarter. All these IoT devices are powered by ARM-based processor and run on android and unix operating system. These IoT devices include mobiles, smart T.V., routers, IP cameras and DVR. This is one major […]