Threats to your digital life are increasing. Are you doing anything about it?

Credit to Author: Rajiv Singha| Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 05:48:41 +0000

It’s an exciting age to be alive! We are rapidly advancing towards greater heights of technology paying witness to inventions like the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Flying Cars, and the prospect of traveling to space as an excursion! The word ‘exciting’ fails to define these milestones mankind is…

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Beware of the ‘Free Cycle Distribution Yojana’ WhatsApp message. It’s fake!

Credit to Author: Ganesh Lakariya| Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:24:29 +0000

As India’s Independence Day (15th of August) approaches, messages about free distribution schemes are doing the rounds on WhatsApp. Just recently, Quick Heal Security Labs detected a widespread circulation of one such message claiming that the Indian government will distribute free cycles to students on Independence Day, under the Free…

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The evolution of a 4-year-old-threat Emotet: From an infamous Trojan to a complex threat distributer

Credit to Author: Aniruddha Dolas| Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:40:33 +0000

Emotet malware campaign has been existing for a long time. It comes frequently in intervals with different techniques and variants to deliver malware on a victim. Attackers are smart and they use complex techniques to avoid detection. At the start of 2017, we had seen the emotet campaign spreading through…

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Quick Heal Total Security (Windows) achieves a 99.5% protection rate in AV-Comparatives’ test

Credit to Author: Rajiv Singha| Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:13:28 +0000

Quick Heal Total Security (Windows) has achieved a 99.5% protection rate in the Real-World Protection Test conducted by world’s leading security software testers AV-Comparatives. Real-World Protection Test February-June 2018 Experts at AV-Comparatives create a real-world environment to test security software. In this environment, malware (malicious software) behave in the same…

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Your copy-paste habit can cost you your money

Credit to Author: Anant Pulgam| Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:40:40 +0000

How often do you store your important data in files? It’s very common, right? This data may be URLs, topics, personal data like contacts, email-ids, usernames of different portals and sometimes passwords too (though always recommended to not to do so). We very casually copy this data and paste it…

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Quick Heal detects malware misusing the fame of Patanjali’s Kimbho app

Credit to Author: Rupali Parate| Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:14:16 +0000

When Patanjali’s Kimbho app came to Google Play Store, it made some headlines on the Internet, newspapers, TVs, etc. It had 1.5 lakh downloads in just 3 hours. Kimbho app was designed for socializing, messaging and sharing videos, images, etc., same as what the WhatsApp and Facebook app do. However,…

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A new ransom-miner malware campaign emerging in wild!

Credit to Author: Preksha Saxena| Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:16:26 +0000

Since the past few weeks, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing a series of interesting malware blocked at our customer end. The further analysis of the malware ‘t.exe’ revealed that the malware seems to be Trojan dropper. Interestingly, this multipurpose malware is downloading a ransomware component, a crypto-mining malware…

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