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Phishing has drastically transformed from its early days as a simple scam targeting unwary email users. Modern phishing techniques—dubbed “Phishing 2.0″—are more complex, highly tailored, and designed to bypass even the most robust security systems. In this blog, we’ll...
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Fake CAPTCHA Lures Victims: Lumma Stealer Abuses Clipboard and PowerShell Introduction: We recently identified a new malware campaign using fake CAPTCHA pages to deliver Lumma Stealer, an infostealer operating under the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model, first discovered in 2022. In...
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We are observing a rise in fake websites offering investment-related services. Many of these impersonate well-known brands by creating replicas of their official websites. Unsuspecting visitors interact with these fake websites, fall victim to scams, and lose large sums...
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The pandemic has expedited digital transformation, making technology and data pivotal to most businesses. However, it has also increased cyber threats, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMBs). In addition, data regulations have also become more stringent, with fines...
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If you’ve been following the news recently, you’ll undoubtedly have read about cybersecurity incidents impacting corporations of all sizes in all industries around the world. While it doesn’t often make the news, even small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have...
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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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Use of Phishing emails is not new for cyber-attack and is still one of the classic strategies to compromise a victim’s machine. Cyber criminals lure victims to open email attachments (mostly Doc and XLS files) by faking them to...
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Cyber-attacks through phishing emails are increasing and generally, attackers use DOC embedded macros to infiltrate victim’s machine. Recently Quick Heal Security Labs came across a Phishing e-mail sample which uses Microsoft’s equation editor exploit to spread Hawkeye keylogger. Cybercriminals...
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For all the high-tech security that is employed, an organization’s biggest chink in its defense, when it comes to cybersecurity, can be its own employees. That is not to say that these employees are deliberately doing what they are,...
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Increasingly, hacker and other malicious criminals are increasing email attachments to inject malware into their targets. Malware disguised as an email attachment represents an easy target – the recipient of the mail may unknowingly open the attachment without even...