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A new ransomware campaign in the wild,Ryuk!!

  • Shriram Munde / 7 years
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Recently, Quick Heal Security Labs observed a new destructive ransomware named ‘Ryuk. Ransomware’. This ransomware campaign has already affected many users worldwide and seems to be a spear phishing attack. The compelling thing, it encrypts victim files without appending any extension but making files unreadable. Ryuk uses robust military algorithms such as ‘RSA4096’ and ‘AES-256’ […]

The Remote Desktop Protocol Vulnerability – ‘CVE-2012-0002’ is not dead yet!

  • Pradeep Kulkarni / 9 years
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On March 13, 2012, Microsoft disclosed the details of a ‘critical vulnerability’ called Remote Desktop Protocol Vulnerability – CVE-2012-0002 in its bulletin. And even four years after this vulnerability was patched, it is still being exploited in the wild by attackers to carry out ‘Remote Code Execution’ on their victims computers. Affected Operating Systems: Microsoft […]

Report: The Dridex Trojan is Back

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 10 years
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“Dridex”, also known as ‘Buget’, is the successor of “Cridex”, a banking Trojan created for stealing victim credentials. After its takedown by the US Government in late 2015, the malware has come up with new versions and techniques. This report aims to provide detailed insights into the infection vector of Dridex, its behavior, work flow […]

Quick Heal AntiVirus Pro vs Quick Heal Internet Security: What’s the difference?

  • Sakshat Karkare / 10 years
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In today’s post, you will get to learn some of the basic and important differences between two of our products – Quick Heal AntiVirus Pro vs Quick Heal Internet Security. While, both these products work to defend your system against malware, viruses and other threats, they differ on the level of strength of protection that […]

Security Vulnerabilities for Android and iOS Hit An All-time High in 2015

  • Antara Biswas / 10 years
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Quick Heal hopes it has been a good year for you. But, has it been a good year for your mobile devices as well? It has been an alarming year for both Android and iOS users. If Android users were vulnerable to Stagefright attacks, iOS users had their own share of vulnerabilities with the Masque […]

Quick Heal has released the Software Update for Windows 10 Compatibility

  • Sakshat Karkare / 10 years
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Many of our readers might recall that we had spoken of the ‘Windows 10 upgrade’ release and its compatibility with Quick Heal in an earlier blog post. We are glad to inform you that we have released the software update, downloading which will make your Quick Heal copy (v16.00) compatible with Microsoft Windows 10. Probably […]

Quick Heal v16.00 (2015) and above will support Windows 10

  • Sakshat Karkare / 11 years
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The latest spur that has been created on the Internet is by none other than Microsoft. Windows 10 for free? Well, why not! Most users who have Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on their PC have received a notification on their taskbar asking them to reserve their free upgrade to Windows 10, which is due […]