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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 / 7 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 […]

APT-27 like Newcore RAT, Virut exploiting MySQL for targeted attacks on enterprise

Vallabh Chole / 7 years
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9 min read

In today’s world data is everything, and to store and process this large amount of data, everyone started using computing devices. Database servers which are used for storing this precious data on computing devices include MySQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, etc. But unfortunately, not everyone is conscious about its security. In fact, approximately 90% of these applications have […]

JCry – A Ransomware written in Golang!

Ghanshyam More / 7 years
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5 min read

For several months, QH Labs has been observing an upswing in ransomware activity. We found a new ransomware which is written in Go lang. Malware authors are finding it easy to write ransomware in Go lang rather than traditional programming languages. Infection of Jcry ransomware starts with a compromised website. As shown in the above image, […]

Malspam email – Jack of all malware, master of none.

Shriram Munde / 7 years
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4 min read

Malspam email or malicious spam emails are considered to be one of the favorite malware delivery channels for the attackers to deliver the malware to targeted victims. Attackers also run spam email campaigns to distribute their malware to a large number of users. For attackers to succeed, two things are important – first is to […]

Obfuscated Equation Editor Exploit (CVE-2017-11882) spreading Hawkeye Keylogger

Pradeep Kulkarni / 7 years
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8 min read

Cyber-attacks through phishing emails are increasing and generally, attackers use DOC embedded macros to infiltrate victim’s machine. Recently Quick Heal Security Labs came across a Phishing e-mail sample which uses Microsoft’s equation editor exploit to spread Hawkeye keylogger. Cybercriminals use different techniques to steal confidential data. Now they are offering advanced forms of malware to […]

Again! A New .NET Ransomware Shrug2

Ghanshyam More / 8 years
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6 min read

For several months, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing an increase in ransomware which are built in .NET framework. Ransomware like SamSam, Lime and now Shrug was found to be built in .NET framework. Malware authors are finding it very easy to build and obfuscate malware in .NET framework rather than making them in other compilers. Quick Heal Security […]

Quick Heal detects malware misusing the fame of Patanjali’s Kimbho app

Rupali Parate / 8 years
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3 min read

When Patanjali’s Kimbho app came to Google Play Store, it made some headlines on the Internet, newspapers, TVs, etc. It had 1.5 lakh downloads in just 3 hours. Kimbho app was designed for socializing, messaging and sharing videos, images, etc., same as what the WhatsApp and Facebook app do. However, due to some security issues, […]

A new ransom-miner malware campaign emerging in wild!

Preksha Saxena / 8 years
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7 min read

Since the past few weeks, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing a series of interesting malware blocked at our customer end. The further analysis of the malware ‘t.exe’ revealed that the malware seems to be Trojan dropper. Interestingly, this multipurpose malware is downloading a ransomware component, a crypto-mining malware and many more. It also […]

Cryptocurrency mining rampage throttles Linux machines – an analysis by Quick Heal Security Labs

Amar Patil / 8 years
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4 min read

Quick Heal Security Labs recently came across a Linux-based Monero (XMR) miner. Monero (XMR) is one of the top 15 cryptocurrencies. It can be mined easily on any machine using its CPU computation power. This is one of the reasons why it is preferred to Bitcoin or Ethereum which are more famous than Monero. Earlier, […]

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