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HorseDeal Riding on The Curveball!

Jayesh kulkarni / 6 years
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5 min read

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) validation mechanism for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by using […]

A sloppy click can exfiltrate your important data!

Anant Pulgam / 6 years
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4 min read

Phishing email still remains one of the top malware propagation medium. Recently, we came across an interesting phishing email containing couple of Jumpshare links pointing to malicious components. Jumpshare is an online file sharing service and often cyber criminals abuse these kind of file sharing services. Upon clicking on one of the links in phishing mail, an executable file […]

Ako Ransomware targeting businesses using RaaS

Shriram Munde / 6 years
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6 min read

Ako Ransomware targeting businesses using RaaS Quick Heal security researchers recently observed ransomware that uses RaaS (Ransomware as a Service) which is a subpart of MaaS (Malware as a Service). Before delving into the AKO ransomware or RaaS, one must understand what Malware as a Service means, as it is seen that many malware families […]

What’s new in macOS Catalina ‘Security and Privacy’?

Amrapali Nimgire / 6 years
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5 min read

Apple released macOS 10.15 (Catalina) on 7th Oct 2019 and now it is publicly available for download. With multiple features presented at the WWDC 2019, here’s an overview of the new security and privacy features introduced in Catalina. Enhanced Gatekeeper Gatekeeper, is an important outer layer of security, designed to prevent malicious software from running […]

The Free Mobile Anti-virus you are using can be a Fake!

Prachi Sudame / 6 years
22
4 min read

Quick Heal Security Labs recently spotted multiple Fake Antivirus Apps on Google Play Store. What’s more alarming, is that one of these fake AV Apps has been downloaded 100000+ times already. These Apps appear to be genuine Anti-virus/virus-removal Apps with names like Virus Cleaner, Antivirus security, etc., but do not have any such functionality. As […]

Alert! Income tax refund SMS – Newest way of conducting bank fraud by cyber criminals

Sushmita Kalashikar / 7 years
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3 min read

Scammers are literally on their toes all year round, but for all the wrong reasons, devising ways and means to trick innocent people. In their latest attempt at fraud, cyber criminals are using fake SMS pretending to be from Income Tax Department to trick innocent victims into sharing bank account details. At a time when […]

Beware! Email attachments can make you victim of spear phishing attacks

Prashant Tilekar / 7 years
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5 min read

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 this type of attack, the attacker uses social engineering tricks and some business transactions or deals to […]

CVE-2019-11815: Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel

Ganesh Lakariya / 7 years
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3 min read

Red Hat engineers and experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, which is basically a flaw while implementation of RDS (Remote desktop Protocol) over TCP. This flaw has affected Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE and security advisories have been issued for all. This flaw could enable an attacker to compromise a system […]

Miners snatching open source tools to strengthen their malevolent power!

Anant Pulgam / 7 years
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13 min read

From the last one year, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing a boost in the number of mining malware. One of the ways to earn cryptocurrencies is to mine them. Nowadays cryptocurrency miner malware have become hot attack vectors for cybercriminals due to its ease of deployment and instant return on investments. We usually […]

PCs fail to boot up / Freeze after receiving Microsoft Windows 9-April-2019 updates and rebooting the PC

Sushmita Kalashikar / 7 years
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3 min read

Quick Heal and Seqrite users are reporting that PCs fails to boot up / Freeze after installing 9th April Windows Updates and Rebooting the system. Symptoms: Users have Quick Heal or Seqrite product installed and running on their systems. The PCs fail to boot up / Freeze after installing Windows Updates of 9-April-2019 and Rebootingthe system. There are also some instances reported of […]

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