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Proactive Measures to Safeguard against the Ransomware Menace

  • Quick Heal Security Labs / 3 years
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  • 6 min read

  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. […]

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  • Quickheal / 3 years
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  • 4 min read

Cybercrimes have been on the rise post-pandemic and are becoming even more sophisticated. Digitization and work from home model have further widened the security perimeter, making cloud, network, and devices vulnerable.  Thus, allowing cybercriminals to surpass the basic and traditional security measures available for free. We are witnessing a tremendous rise in internet and smartphone […]

Security resolutions for 2020 to stay safe online!

  • Pavan Thorat / 6 years
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  • 4 min read

As we are about to enter the new year, it’s ritualistic to reflect on our experiences from the passing year and make resolutions for the New Year. Most people make resolutions around good heath, their life goals, etc. Here is a different angle to our routine resolutions’ list – Security Resolutions everyone should make for […]

BlueKeep Attacks seen in the wild!

  • Sameer Patil / 6 years
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  • 2 min read

CVE-2019-0708, popularly known as BlueKeep, is a RDP pre-authentication vulnerability which allows attacker to compromise a vulnerable system without user’s interaction. This exploit is also wormable, meaning that it can spread to other vulnerable systems in a similar way as the WannaCry malware spread across the globe in 2017. Interestingly, healthcare products like radiography, X-ray […]

Ransomware As A Tool – LockerGoga

  • Ghanshyam More / 7 years
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  • 5 min read

Ransomware authors keep experimenting with the development of payload in various dimensions. In the timeline of ransomware implementations, we have seen its evolution from a simple screen locker to multi-component model for file encryption, from novice approach to a sophisticated one. The Ransomware as a Tool has evolved in wild and one of them has […]

CVE-2019-11815: Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel

  • Ganesh Lakariya / 7 years
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  • 3 min read

Red Hat engineers and experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, which is basically a flaw while implementation of RDS (Remote desktop Protocol) over TCP. This flaw has affected Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE and security advisories have been issued for all. This flaw could enable an attacker to compromise a system […]

Anatova, A modular ransomware

  • Shriram Munde / 7 years
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  • 7 min read

While everyone was engaged in new year celebrations, malware authors were busy creating new ransomware for 2019. Quick Heal Security Labs has observed the first ransomware of 2019 — Anatova. During our analysis, we found that Anatova is not just ransomware but a modular one. By modular ransomware we mean, though the main activity of […]

Mongolock Ransomware deletes files and targets databases

  • Shriram Munde / 7 years
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  • 3 min read

Ransomware has become one of the most dangerous cyber-attack methods because of the different techniques it uses to encrypt the files and evade the detection of security software to earn money. Also, at a time, it’s not limited to encrypting user’s files but also deletes the files and formats the local disk drives. Recently, Quick […]