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Phishing Archive

Could you be blindsided when your CEO emails you?

Can office emails leave you skating on thin ice?

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Whaling attacks are a deadly combination of spear-phishing and social engineering. Like phishing attacks, the attempts of the perpetrators are similar – to get a target to reveal confidential data or even get tricked and send money. But whaling...
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September 22, 2020

Are industrial whales getting massacred by spear-phishing?

Big businesses getting trapped by phishing nets.

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Supply chains and industrial enterprises are being targeted through a series of ongoing spear-phishing attacks. This recent campaign, observed on systems within Germany, United States and Japan thus far, operates through the obfuscation of malware on public, legitimate sources....
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July 28, 2020

Advance Campaign Targeting Manufacturing and Export Sectors in India

Beware:Phishing emails are sinking the ship of Manufacturing and Export Sectors.

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Summary Quick Heal Security Labs has observed a new malspam campaign that is targeting Manufacturing and Export industries in India. In this campaign, malware actors are making use of multiple sophisticated techniques to bypass defence mechanisms. In our analysis,...
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July 6, 2020

Transparent Tribe Targeting Critical Indian Organizations

APTs Targeting Critical National Organizations

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Quick Heal Labs have been tracking this Cyber-espionage operation since 2016. We have identified this attack as operation m_project. From the past year, we have seen a surge in these APT activities. Modus operandi of the attackers have remained...
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May 12, 2020

Attacker uses tricky technique of Excel 4.0 in Malspam campaign

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Use of Phishing emails is not new for cyber-attack and is still one of the classic strategies to compromise a victim’s machine. Cyber criminals lure victims to open email attachments (mostly Doc and XLS files) by faking them to...
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November 2, 2019

Beware! Email attachments can make you victim of spear phishing attacks

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

In the last few months, we’ve seen a sudden increase in Spear Phishing attacks. Spear phishing is a variation of a phishing scam wherein hackers send a targeted email to an individual which appears to be from a trusted source. In...
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June 21, 2019

Beware! Your website might be delivering Emotet malware

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes

In 2018, we saw a surge in Emotet activity. Emotet started as a banking trojan but this blog will shed light on how it has also become a “threat distributor”. We will also discuss server-side and client-side activity and...
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December 29, 2018
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Obfuscated Equation Editor Exploit (CVE-2017-11882) spreading Hawkeye Keylogger

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Cyber-attacks through phishing emails are increasing and generally, attackers use DOC embedded macros to infiltrate victim’s machine. Recently Quick Heal Security Labs came across a Phishing e-mail sample which uses Microsoft’s equation editor exploit to spread Hawkeye keylogger. Cybercriminals...
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November 1, 2018
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Emerging trend of spreading malware through IQY files

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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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October 3, 2018
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The evolution of a 4-year-old-threat Emotet: From an infamous Trojan to a complex threat distributer

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Emotet malware campaign has been existing for a long time. It comes frequently in intervals with different techniques and variants to deliver malware on a victim. Attackers are smart and they use complex techniques to avoid detection. At the...
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July 25, 2018
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