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Calling from the Underground: An alternative way to penetrate corporate networks

Calling from the Underground: An alternative way to penetrate corporate networks

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Threat actors use multiple methods to distribute malware to infect specific targets. Even though various phishing methods are actively used and evolving, an alternative approach to increase their success rate is to call the target corporate companies. Techniques like...
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January 11, 2023

Zloader: Entailing Different Office Files

Zloader: Entailing Different Office Files

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Zloader aka Terdot – a variant of the infamous Zeus banking malware is well known for aggressively using “.xls”, “.xlsx” documents as its initial vector to deliver its payload. Despite this, recently we have come across “.docm” file which...
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March 23, 2021

Could you be blindsided when your CEO emails you?

Could you be blindsided when your CEO emails you?

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

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?

Are industrial whales getting massacred by spear-phishing?

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

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

Transparent Tribe Targeting Critical Indian Organizations

Transparent Tribe Targeting Critical Indian 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

Attacker uses tricky technique of Excel 4.0 in Malspam campaign

Estimated reading time: 4 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

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

Beware! Your website might be delivering Emotet malware

Estimated reading time: 10 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

Obfuscated Equation Editor Exploit (CVE-2017-11882) spreading Hawkeye Keylogger

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

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

Emerging trend of spreading malware through IQY files

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

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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