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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...Information Technology, Network Security & Cybersecurity Updates
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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...
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The unprecedented rise of a work from home staff has greatly increased the risk of data breaches for the IT/ITes sector. With companies forced to mandate Work From Home (WFH) for its employees in the face of the global...
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Microsoft has recently come up with a new update for Windows 10 PCs, called Windows 10 May 2020 Update 20H1 (Vibranium) Build version 2004. This post lists down some of the highlights of this update and Seqrite Endpoint Security...
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There has been a significant impact on the global pharmaceutical industry due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In India, pharma exports were pegged to take a hit of $1.5 billion. Yet the very nature of the industry underlines its...