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Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:56:59 +0000

Malspam email or malicious spam email is considered as one of the favorite malware delivery channels for attackers to deliver their malware to their targeted victims. Attackers also run spam email campaigns to distribute their malware to a large number of users. For attackers to succeed, two things are important…

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August 2, 2017 admin

Beware of Fake Flash Player apps on Google Play

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:22:06 +0000

Quick Heal Security Labs has found 2 fraudulent apps pretending to be Adobe Flash Player on the Google Play Store. Presently, no official apps of Adobe Flash Player are available on the Play Store. The rest of the post will tell you more. Fake App #1. Plugin for Video Flash…

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August 1, 2017 admin

Cryptomix Ransomware resurfaces with multiple variants

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:12:23 +0000

Cryptomix Ransomware has been active for the last one year and has come up with multiple variants. It spreads via exploit kits, malicious attachments, and malicious links spread across the Internet on hacked domains. Cryptomix Ransomware does not change the desktop background but encrypts files stored on the infected system…

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July 25, 2017 admin

Beware of these fake apps on Google Play Store that use ‘Jio/Jeo’ in their names

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:53:52 +0000

Jio took the Indian telecom market by storm when it made its entry with free unlimited calls and data offers. People went into a kind of frenzy for acquiring this service. And with its ‘truly unbelievable’ offers, Jio also launched an array of apps in the Google Play Store such…

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July 24, 2017 admin

Malware alert! Beware of the BTCWare Aleta Ransomware

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 06:28:38 +0000

Quick Heal Security Labs has observed the entry of a new BTCWare ransomware (first observed at the beginning of 2017) variant called ‘Aleta’. This ransomware is called so because it appends a “.aleta” extension to files it encrypts in an infected computer. Although BTCWare ransomware variants do not seem to…

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July 24, 2017 admin

Beware of these fake apps on Google Play Store that uses ‘Jio/Jeo’ in their names

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:53:52 +0000

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July 24, 2017 admin

Beware of these fake apps that uses ‘Jio/Jeo’ in their names

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:53:52 +0000

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July 21, 2017 admin

NemucodAES malspam is back and this time it brought along Kovter Trojan

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:28:15 +0000

For the last few weeks, we have been observing a new malicious spam (malspam) variant that is spreading via an email claiming to be from the United Parcel Service (UPS) carriages. The email carries a zip attachment that contains NemucodAES Ransomware and fileless Kovter Trojan. Earlier, such malspam campaigns were…

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