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Mitigating Ransomware Attacks: How to keep you and your family safe

Quickheal / 4 years
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5 min read

There’s a rise in ransomware attacks, and they’re becoming deadlier and more dangerous than ever! A report by Cybersecurity Ventures predicted that businesses in 2021 would fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds! The total cost of ransomware to businesses would top USD 20 billion this year. Quick Heal Threat Report Q1 2021 detected 0.35 million ransomware […]

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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6 min read

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 […]

Ransomware erupts supporting farmer protests

SARBLOH: A NEW RANSOMWARE THAT DOES NOT DEMAND MONEY

Tejaswini Sandapolla / 5 years
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8 min read

Quick Heal Security Labs came across a Ransomware named “SARBLOH RANSOMWARE”, which claims to support the ongoing farmers protests in the country. In this attack, a malicious document is being spread which downloads ransomware from the following URLs – hxxps://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/ans[.]video.input/transcode_input/profile16146815778005vw0qb.png hxxp://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/ans[.]video.input/transcode_input/profile16146815778005vw0qb.png The downloaded ransomware encrypts the files on the system with extension .sarbloh and shows […]

The modus operandi of the Maze Ransomware

Way Out of The MAZE: A Quick Guide For Defending Against Maze Ransomware

Jayesh kulkarni / 6 years
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8 min read

From late 2019, MAZE Ransomware started becoming infamous for its Encryption, data stealing and the subsequent selling of the stolen data. Few other reasons behind its popularity are also its unique targets and the ransom demands. From its inception around May 2019, MAZE actors are targeting multiple sectors, prominent ones being healthcare and research, that […]

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Dharma Ransomware Variant Malspam Targeting COVID-19

Rahul Sharma / 6 years
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7 min read

Since the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, many malware have been seen trying to lure people to open malicious emails, malicious domains and run other malware, etc. Some of these malicious domains are fully functional and provide real-time mapping of COVID-19 stats across the globe. However, they deliver malware on the system of victims […]

Ransomware attacks happening under the name of Coronavirus

Is the Coronavirus becoming an attack channel for ransomware?

Anita Ladkat / 6 years
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3 min read

Nowadays, everybody is aware of the term, ‘Novel Coronavirus.’ All over the world, 7.7 Billion people have gotten affected by Coronavirus directly or indirectly. It has impacted so badly that currently, entire mankind is frightened and worried about the future of their survival. As per sources, it originated in China and spread across the entire […]

Fake Coronavirus tracking app exploiting our fear and vulnerable social situation

Digvijay Mane / 6 years
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5 min read

As the Coronavirus spreads across countries creating fear across the globe, everybody wants to stay on top of any information related to it wanting to remain safe and away from infected people. Malware authors are also taking advantage of this situation. Previously on the Android Playstore, there were many applications present which claimed that they could provide Coronavirus […]

Mailto Ransomware under the skin of explorer.exe

Priyanka Shinde / 6 years
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5 min read

All of us, at some point in time, must have heard the story of Wolf and the flock of sheep. The fooling trick used by the wicked wolf of pretending to be a sheep is still in use by many malware authors. They pretend to be genuine processes to achieve their villainy activities. Such a […]

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 […]