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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a far-reaching impact on the world as we know —it has also led to a huge increase in cyber frauds. Emboldened by the chaos and instability caused by the pandemic, threat actors have...
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Ransomware has come a long way in cyberspace by continuous improvement in its techniques and tactics in encrypting system files. Over the years ransomware has improvised itself by moving from PE to non-PE and standalone payloads, by using different...
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Microsoft recently warned its over 100,000 followers about the emergence of a new human-operated Java-based ransomware that has been involved in targeted attacks in the US, India and Iran. PonyFinal, the name of this malware, is an example of...
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E-commerce platforms have always been a favourite target for hackers. The recent months have brought into attention a new campaign by malicious hackers to penetrate insecure servers of e-commerce platforms, steal their databases and then demand Bitcoin to return...
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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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Over 30,000 customers across the globe rely on Seqrite’s cutting-edge Anti-Ransomware capabilities to protect businesses from being taken as hostages by hackers. Quick Heal, the parent company of enterprise cybersecurity brand Seqrite, had predicted ransomware to be the menace...
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Ransomware authors keep experimenting with the development of payload in various dimensions. In the timeline of ransomware implementations, we have seen its evolution from a simple screen locker to multi-component model for file encryption, from novice approach to a...
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Emotet malware was first identified in 2014 as Banking trojan. Emotet has evolved from banking trojan to threat distributor till now. It has hit many organizations very badly in 2018 with its functionalities like spamming and spreading. Further with...
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This is an important security advisory related to a recently patched Critical remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Service (RDP). The vulnerability is identified as “CVE-2019-0708 – Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability”. MSRC blog mentions...