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Routers are extremely vulnerable to cyberattacks. Here’s how to safeguard them Given that a large number of people use a router to connect to web, chances are that may be you using a router at home to access the...
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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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Summary In the last 3 months, we have noticed increased activity from APT36, a Pakistan-linked Cyber Threat actor. The target this time are personnel belonging to defence organizations & other Government organizations in India. In the recent wave of...
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A domain name is a business’s primary identity on the internet —current and potential customers identify a business through its domain name. Social media has provided a new channel to connect with customers but a domain name remains an...
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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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Recently the Union home ministry has issued a warning raising a red flag for users of Zoom video-conferencing application and marked it as unsafe to use. Earlier, during the end of March, CERT-IN, India’s nodal cybersecurity agency had warned...
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Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion” – W. Edwards Deming Widely used across different industries, security analytics is slowly making its way into the domain of cybersecurity — courtesy to this industry’s rising awareness about the...
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According to Gartner’s Top 7 Security and Risk Trends 2019 report, a renewed interest towards excelling Security Operation Centres (SOCs) has been considered as among the top two new trends of the year. The evolution of the Security Operations...
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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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What is VPN? A VPN, or virtual private network, is a secure tunnel between your device and the internet. It is an encrypted connection which is used to protect your online traffic from snooping, interference, and censorship. It allows...