What is Emotet?

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 11:38:17 +0000

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 its widespread rich/existence at many organizations, it became threat distributor. Since…

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CVE-2019-0708 – A Critical “Wormable” Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Windows RDP

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 06:06:20 +0000

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 This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. In other…

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Miners snatching open source tools to strengthen their malevolent power!

Credit to Author: Anant Pulgam| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 07:02:51 +0000

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…

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5 ways to instantly detect a phishing email and save yourself from phishing attack

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:06:17 +0000

Phishing is a fraudulent activity to trick you into revealing your personal and confidential information. This information usually includes bank account details, net banking details, credit/debit card numbers, login ID and passwords. Every day, countless people become unsuspecting victims of phishing attacks. With cyber criminals adopting sophisticated modes of phishing…

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

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:59:29 +0000

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…

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JCry – A Ransomware written in Golang!

Credit to Author: Ghanshyam More| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 09:49:34 +0000

For several months, QH Labs has been observing an upswing in ransomware activity. We found a new ransomware which is written in Go lang. Malware authors are finding it easy to write ransomware in Go lang rather than traditional programming languages. Infection of Jcry ransomware starts with a compromised website. As…

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This summer vacation let your kids explore the internet with safety of parental control

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:16:46 +0000

At a time when toddlers can be seen playing around with tabs and teens are living in a virtual world of communication, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that today’s parents are raising a completely new and advanced breed of kids!! Not to be left behind are the schools that…

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Safe summer vacations – Make it interesting and secure for your kids with Parental Control

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:16:46 +0000

At a time when toddlers can be seen playing around with tabs and teens are living in a virtual world of communication, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that today’s parents are raising a completely new and advanced breed of kids!! Not to be left behind are the schools that…

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