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From the past few months, we have been monitoring cyber-threats on MSME [Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises] sector within India. MSME sector is considered to be the backbone of the Indian economy. MSME employs around 40% of the country’s...
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Since last year, cyber-criminal groups are spreading cryptomining malware at an alarming rate. Vulnerabilities are being exploited on public-facing servers to run multi-component malware delivering cryptocurrency miners. Mostly servers are being targeted as these machines have a high configuration...
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E-commerce platforms have always been a favourite target for hackers. The recent months have brought into attention a new campaign by malicious hackers to penetrate insecure servers of e-commerce platforms, steal their databases and then demand Bitcoin to return...
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New targeted ransomware called SNAKE or EKANS was found in early January. Malware is written in the Go language and it is heavily obfuscated and goes after ICS environments. Snake Ransomware seems to be distributed via a focused and...
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Summary In the last 3 months, we have noticed increased activity from APT36, a Pakistan-linked Cyber Threat actor. The target this time are personnel belonging to defence organizations & other Government organizations in India. In the recent wave of...
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Summary Quick Heal Security Labs has observed a new malspam campaign that is targeting Manufacturing and Export industries in India. In this campaign, malware actors are making use of multiple sophisticated techniques to bypass defence mechanisms. In our analysis,...
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In recent times, the education sector has seen an upsurge in the number of cyberthreats. Seqrite’s Threat Report Q3 2019 found that the education sector saw the largest number of cyberthreats between July and September 2019, accounting for 30%...
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Enterprise collaboration tools have seen an upsurge in popularity this year, thanks to the global pandemic forcing organizations all over the world to work from home. Even as the economy takes the initial step towards resumption, the days of...
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Maze is a recently highlighted ransomware among the ever-growing list of ransomware families. The ransomware is active from the past one year, although it came into limelight due to its new approach of publishing sensitive data of infected customers...
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The onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resultant social distancing measures across the world has had a sobering effect on the manufacturing industry. Large-scale plants have shuttered down and with demand at a historical low, the economic...