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THE PERILS OF RANSOMWARE : How to Save yourself from the next attack

  • Quickheal / 3 years
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In recent years, ransomware attacks have increased in frequency and sophistication, resulting in substantial impact across numerous industries and sectors worldwide. A typical ransomware attack encrypts computer systems, and blocks access to the user’s or company’s own data, and a ransom is demanded as payment in exchange of its release. In this blog, we will […]

Proactive Measures to Safeguard against the Ransomware Menace

  • Quick Heal Security Labs / 3 years
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  Ransomware is a sophisticated malware that infects computing devices and holds the data hostage intending to extort money from its victims. Ransomware uses encryption techniques that render the victim’s data unusable. Ransomware attacks have evolved with time, and the encryption techniques to harm victims have also become sophisticated, which are often challenging to break. […]

QBOT – A HTML Smuggling technique to target victims

  • Anjali Raut / 3 years
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QBot, also known as Qakbot, QuackBot, and Pinkslipbot, is a Banking Trojan that was first observed in 2007. Today, Qbot is still a vicious and persistent threat to organizations and has become one of the leading Banking Trojans globally. Over the years, it has changed its initial techniques to deliver payloads like using VBA macros, […]

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What is Phishing? A Deep Dive into the Phishing Attack Mechanisms with Tips

  • Amruta Wagh / 4 years
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Phishing is a technique used to steal credentials, personal information & financial details of a user. The attacker sends email or text to spoof the target, luring them to open malicious links or attachments. The most prevalent ways attackers attempt phishing attack are through social networking sites, SMS, and email notifications. We see a sudden […]

Sextortion Scam

Sextortion Scam: Blackmail scam emails that demand Bitcoin

  • Ayush Puri / 4 years
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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 […]

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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 […]

Breaches and Incidents: Top 5 Cyber-attacks in Quarter 1 – 2021

  • Quickheal / 5 years
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The second wave of the pandemic has hit India hard from a cybersecurity perspective. There has been a rise in recent cyber-attacks in India in 2021, with cybercriminals taking advantage of the situation and finding new ways to breach data. If we analyze the news of cyber-attacks in 2021, we will observe increased COVID-19 cyber […]

Scam Alert Beware of Fake LinkedIn Job Offers

LinkedIn Phishing Scam: Hackers target users with fake job offers

  • Prashant Tilekar / 5 years
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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 […]