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In a recent event, Kaseya – the US-based software provider for MSPs and IT Teams reported a worldwide Supply Chain Attack on July 2, 2021 taking advantage of US Independence Day as leverage since the strength of staff to...
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The SideCopy APT Group has expanded its activity this year and now targets critical Indian sectors this time. Quick Heal Security Labs researchers have been tracking the notorious cyber-attack group – ‘Transparent Tribe’ since the first SideCopy campaign in...
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The last decade has witnessed an accelerated adoption of cloud, mobile, and cloud apps. Over the previous year, with the new normal kicking in, organizations had to transition their employees to work outside the enterprise perimeter. As remote work...
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On March 2, Microsoft announced a threat group, HAFNIUM, is actively exploiting four zero-day vulnerabilities in their Exchange Servers. Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065), enabling attackers to take access email accounts and run...
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Current times have witnessed a large percentage of cyber breaches resulting from human errors. For example, the famous WannaCry ransomware attack that affected the entire world in 2017 increased due to negligence of security teams in ensuring if the...
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The dangers of not timely patching enterprise systems were further highlighted with the news of the Black Kingdom ransomware in March end. This new strain of ransomware called “The Black Kingdom” started attacking Microsoft Exchange servers on March 18th...
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The dual extension or double extension is one of the oldest forms of cyber-attacks but continues to be extremely effective. The reason for the continued effectiveness of this type of attack lies in its simplicity. File extensions are so...
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For good reason, organizations regulate their employees’ access to their office devices. Of course, there are no overarching rules but organizations try to adopt a ‘horses for courses’ approach, i.e., an employee working in the financial sector who handles...
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Introduction: Researchers at Quick Heal Security Labs have uncovered a potential Spear Phishing campaign targeted against Indian Army personnel. In this attack, the attackers are using “Army Welfare Education Society” Scholarship form as lure. About AWES: Army Welfare Education...
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As a concept, privacy is seeing a paradigm shift in terms of its importance. Traditionally, for a developing country like India with its myriad of sociological and infrastructural issues, privacy came quite low on the priority list. However, with...