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For several months, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing an increase in ransomware, we have found one more interesting ransomware which encrypts files and adds extension “.katyusha” and demands for an amount of 0.5 btc within three days and threatens to...
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The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-15982 in Adobe Flash Player enables attackers to perform a Remote Code Execution on targeted machines. Adobe has released a security advisory APSB18-42 on December 5, 2018 to address this issue. According to Adobe, the...
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Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks can be extremely dangerous, whether from an enterprise or a single user point of view. They are basically backdoors which allow external users to access and use a system over the Internet. The United...
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Ransomware is scary. Anyone who has ever been the victim of a ransomware attack or seen the havoc WannaCry unleashed, would agree. And it is not a threat that seems to be going away anytime soon – the European...
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For any enterprise which has some sort of association with the financial sector, it is important to be familiar with the threat of Emotet. Yes, Emotet, a part of the banking Trojan family which is distributed through various different...
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It’s the season of the holidays. Of fun, celebration and festivity. With just one hitch: cyber threats. The unfortunate fact is that cybercriminals are not on a holiday. They are continuously searching for ways in which they can damage...
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The mobile is literally everywhere. It has permeated almost everyone’s lives which mean the distinctions between the personal and the professional have narrowed. A personal cell phone is used for a lot of professional work by employees. Think of...
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Nowadays attackers are searching for new techniques to spread malware, recently we came across a new emerging way to deliver malware through IQY file. Till now we had seen spread of malware through various file types and chains such as...
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The tech world seems to be gearing up for the fourth industrial revolution with an estimated 20 billion Internet of Things devices expected to be deployed by the year 2020. While these technical marvels are being designed to streamline...
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Business Email Compromise (BEC), also known as “Man-In-The-Email” or “CEO Fraud”, is a sophisticated type of phishing attack, carried out through elaborate means and usually with devastating effect. The US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) estimated that global business...