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The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-8440 in Windows Task Scheduler enables attackers to perform a privilege elevation on targeted machines. Microsoft has released a security advisory CVE-2018-8440 on September 11, 2018 to address this issue. According to Microsoft, successful exploitation...
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From the last one year, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing a boost in the number of mining malware. Nowadays malware authors are using mining as a replacement for Ransomware to make money. Recently Quick Heal Security Labs...
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As cyber-attacks continue to affect businesses, it is banks that are the most lucrative target for cybercriminals. Beyond having their reputation at stake, banks also risk customer’s money and data, amplified regulatory attention and even litigation. The stakes are...
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The importance of cybersecurity has slowly seeped into the consciousness of enterprises. A cybercrime can undo years of work in an instant and enterprises are recognizing this and trying to find ways to stay safe. Hence, investment in security...
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Emotet malware campaign has been existing for a long time. It comes frequently in intervals with different techniques and variants to deliver malware on a victim. Attackers are smart and they use complex techniques to avoid detection. At the...
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How often do you store your important data in files? It’s very common, right? This data may be URLs, topics, personal data like contacts, email-ids, usernames of different portals and sometimes passwords too (though always recommended to not to...
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Cybersecurity threats are often like an ever-changing monster – you just can’t defeat it. A strong anti-virus solution with all the other necessary tools will help you secure your organization’s defense but it’s impossible to control what is happening...
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Deep Web. Dark Web. Ransomware. Tor. Illegal activities. Bitcoin. A cursory search of the first two terms would reveal a range of web pages, all talking about the next four terms. The mystery and suspense the deep and dark...
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The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-5002 in Adobe Flash Player enables attackers to perform a Remote Code Execution on targeted machines. Adobe has released a security advisory APSB18-19 on June 7, 2018 to address this issue. According to Adobe, the...
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On April 25, 2018, Quick Heal Security Labs issued an advisory on a new ransomware outbreak. We are observing a sudden spike of Dharma Ransomware. Even though Dharma ransomware is old, we observed its new variant which is encrypting...