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We generally see that ransomware attacks are deployed through exploits, unsolicited malicious emails (malspam), or malicious Microsoft Office documents. Attackers trick the unsuspecting users into enabling macros, etc. Apart from these usual attack techniques, we came across a new...
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New targeted ransomware called SNAKE or EKANS was found in early January. Malware is written in the Go language and it is heavily obfuscated and goes after ICS environments. Snake Ransomware seems to be distributed via a focused and...
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Maze is a recently highlighted ransomware among the ever-growing list of ransomware families. The ransomware is active from the past one year, although it came into limelight due to its new approach of publishing sensitive data of infected customers...
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While the current focus in the cyberspace is on Ransomware and Cryptominers there are other prevalent threat actors silently making their way into victim’s machine in order to comprise it for malicious purpose. During the daily threat hunting task,Quick...
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Since the past few weeks, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing a series of interesting malware blocked at our customer end. The further analysis of the malware ‘t.exe’ revealed that the malware seems to be Trojan dropper. Interestingly,...
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Cryptocurrencies are all the vogue now. This has resulted in the emergence of increasing cryptocurrency mining activities. Several platforms make mining services available to users. One such platform that provides JavaScript cryptocurrency miners for websites is CoinHive. Recently, we have...