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About Prashant Kadam

Prashant Kadam is part of the HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System) team in Quick Heal Security Labs. He has worked on various security vulnerabilities reported by Microsoft and Adobe, and network-based vulnerabilities. He has a keen interest in writing blog posts on trends observed during his research.

CVE-2018-4990 – Adobe Reader Double Free (Zero Day) vulnerability alert!

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The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-4990 in Adobe Reader enables attackers to perform a Remote Code Execution on targeted machines. Adobe has released a security advisory APSB18-09 on May 14, 2018 to address this issue. According to Adobe, the in-wild...
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CVE-2018-8174 – Windows VBScript Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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The recent zero-day vulnerability in Windows VBScript Engine (CVE-2018-8174), enables attackers to perform a remote code execution on targeted machines. Microsoft has released a security advisory CVE-2018-8174 on May 8, 2018, to address this issue. According to Microsoft, it impacts most of the Windows...
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In-browser Cryptojacking at full throttle!

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Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Tezos are in full swing. And they have exponentially increased cryptocurrency mining (or cryptomining) activities. Previously, cryptomining was carried out by powerful and dedicated mining hardware or by utilizing distributed computing because the entire process requires a lot of computation. However, there has been an observable change in the mining trends. Now,...
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