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Nowadays, everybody is aware of the term, ‘Novel Coronavirus.’ All over the world, 7.7 Billion people have gotten affected by Coronavirus directly or indirectly. It has impacted so badly that currently, entire mankind is frightened and worried about the...
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Ransomware continues to be a threat, despite a minor fall in the number of successful attacks in 2019. As Seqrite’s Predictions 2020 Cyberthreats report observes, ransomware has evolved and its newest iteration could cause renewed damage across industries, especially...
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The threat is real! The WHO has recently announced that the Coronavirus catastrophe has reached a pandemic level. Amidst the global chaos, enterprises are in helter-skelter as well, thinking of the best possible ways to retain business continuity and...
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All of us, at some point in time, must have heard the story of Wolf and the flock of sheep. The fooling trick used by the wicked wolf of pretending to be a sheep is still in use by...
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Quick Heal Security Labs recently came across a variant of Ryuk Ransomware which contains an additional feature of identifying and encrypting systems in a Local Area Network (LAN). This sample targets the systems which are present in sleep as well as...
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It’s surprising to see how quickly attackers make use of new vulnerabilities in malware campaigns. Microsoft recently patched a very interesting vulnerability in their monthly Patch Tuesday update for January 2020. It’s a spoofing vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll)...
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Recently while threat hunting, Quick Heal Security Labs came across an unusual Node.js framework based Nodera ransomware. The use of Node.js framework is not seen commonly across malware families. Latest development by threat actors reveal a nasty and one-of-its-kind ransomware being created;...
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With almost 200 extensions, STOP (djvu) ransomware can be said to be 2019’s most active and widespread ransomware. Although this ransomware was active a year before, it started its campaign aggressively in early 2019. To evade detection, it has...
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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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Thanks to increasing cyberthreats, the role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in an organization is only expanding. More and more CISOs are now part of senior leadership teams, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer. There is...