Credit to Author: Bajrang Mane| Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 08:28:45 +0000
In 2018, we saw a surge in Emotet activity. Emotet started as a banking trojan but this blog will shed light on how it has also become a “threat distributor”. We will also discuss server-side and client-side activity and how it spreads. Its self-propagation makes it all the more challenging…
Read moreCredit to Author: Bajrang Mane| Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 08:28:45 +0000
In 2018, we saw a surge in Emotet activity. Emotet started as a banking trojan but this blog will shed light on how it has also become a “threat distributor”. We will also discuss server-side and client-side activity and how it spreads. Its self-propagation makes it all the more challenging…
Read moreCredit to Author: Anant Pulgam| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:44:21 +0000
GandCrab has been in the wild since last week of January 2018. Over the period it kept learning from its mistakes and GandCrab’s agile development grabbed the attention of many security researchers. From moving its servers to Namecoin powered Top Level Domain (.BIT TLD) servers after the first breach, then learning from…
Read moreCredit to Author: Ghanshyam More| Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:59:58 +0000
For several months, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing an increase in ransomware, we have found one more interesting ransomware which encrypts files and adds extension “.katyusha” and demands for an amount of 0.5 btc within three days and threatens to release the data to public download if the ransom is not…
Read moreCredit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 05:02:24 +0000
At a time when most of us are living in a virtual world, where we are connected to our friends and family mostly through social networking sites, imagine what it would be like to find your social media account hacked!! That’s exactly what happened with 50 million of Facebook users…
Read moreCredit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 11:53:39 +0000
The afternoon of September 28th 2018 brought in a wave of shock for 50 million Facebook users, when they found themselves logged out of Facebook!! In one of the worst data breach attacks in the history of Facebook, over 90 million users on Friday afternoon, were forced to log out…
Read moreCredit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 09:29:17 +0000
In case you have received a reminder from your bank asking you to replace your stripe-only card with an EMV chip card and you have no idea why this change is being implemented, then you are at the right place. As per recent instructions received from the Reserve Bank of…
Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2018 15:00:36 +0000
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| A round-up of the security news from August 27 – September 2, including ransomware, interesting talks during BlackHat, botnets, and the evils of JavaScript. Categories: Tags: emaileu telecomsfake newsHackermalwareMobileprivacy |
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