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How valuable is data? A good way to answer that question is to look at the average cost of a data breach. Recent research in May 2020 found that the average cost of a data breach was USD 3.92...
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A new and deadlier version of a familiar malware —it was discovered in 2019 and designated a sophisticated piece of malware, Valak was considered a type of malware loader, a type of program used to load other malware on...
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An Application Programming Interface (API) is a way that allows applications to communicate with one another. It provides a way for developers to build software applications while enabling the extraction and sharing of data in an accessible manner. APIs...
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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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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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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...