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Top 6 cybersecurity threats that every Startup or Business should have to be ready to fight in current times

Top 6 cybersecurity threats that every Startup or Business should have to be ready to fight in current times

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

If you’ve been following the news recently, you’ll undoubtedly have read about cybersecurity incidents impacting corporations of all sizes in all industries around the world. While it doesn’t often make the news, even small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have...
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December 3, 2021

New Spear Phishing Campaign using Army Welfare Education Society’s Scholarship form

New Spear Phishing Campaign using Army Welfare Education Society’s Scholarship form

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Introduction: Researchers at Quick Heal Security Labs have uncovered a potential Spear Phishing campaign targeted against Indian Army personnel. In this attack, the attackers are using “Army Welfare Education Society” Scholarship form as lure. About AWES: Army Welfare Education...
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March 22, 2021

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: 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

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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What is social engineering? How criminals take advantage of human behavior

What is social engineering? How criminals take advantage of human behavior

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

For all the high-tech security that is employed, an organization’s biggest chink in its defense, when it comes to cybersecurity, can be its own employees. That is not to say that these employees are deliberately doing what they are,...
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September 14, 2018
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Malware in attachment? Stop them before they hit your organization’s security

Malware in attachment? Stop them before they hit your organization’s security

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Increasingly, hacker and other malicious criminals are increasing email attachments to inject malware into their targets. Malware disguised as an email attachment represents an easy target – the recipient of the mail may unknowingly open the attachment without even...
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April 12, 2018
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An in-depth analysis of a new, emerging “.url” malware campaign

An in-depth analysis of a new, emerging “.url” malware campaign

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Last week, we had blogged about the emergence of a new attack vector ‘.url’ which is used to spread malware. In this blog post, we will deep-dive into the attack chain of this ‘.url’ vector and elaborate on the...
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March 19, 2018
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Diving deep into the Business Email Compromise

Diving deep into the Business Email Compromise

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Business Email Compromise is the new kid in the block in cyber crime space. As per an FBI report, Business Email Compromise (BEC) has affected more than 130 countries since October 2013 and the global losses or attempted losses...
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February 14, 2018

Seqrite thwarts attempts of a JAVA jRAT phishing campaign targeting an international embassy in India

Seqrite thwarts attempts of a JAVA jRAT phishing campaign targeting an international embassy in India

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Earlier we had blogged about how JAVA based jRAT malware were evolved in the recent times. At Quick Heal Security Labs, we are actively observing jRAT campaigns happening in the wild. These JAVA malware spread through phishing campaigns. While analyzing one such phishing campaign, we found...
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January 16, 2018
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What is a Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack? How Seqrite can help in protecting your business email?

What is a Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack? How Seqrite can help in protecting your business email?

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

A few months back, FBI released a report stating that Business Email Compromise or rather BEC scams usually cost businesses around  $3.1 billion. In addition to that, FBI also warned organizations regarding “Man-in-the-Email” and “CEO Fraud”; some of the...
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October 19, 2017
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