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Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:40:57 +0000
If you weren’t careful with your incoming emails, then it’s time you should. Attackers have released 12.5 million emails hiding a ransomware called the Scarab malware. And Necurs botnet, the world’s largest email spam botnet, is being used in this attack. First, what is a botnet? A group of computers…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:40:57 +0000
If you weren’t careful with your incoming emails, then it’s time you should. Attackers have released 12.5 million emails hiding a ransomware called the Scarab malware. And Necurs botnet, the world’s largest email spam botnet, is being used in this attack. First, what is a botnet? A group of computers…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:55:01 +0000
Popular image-sharing site Imgur has issued a notification through its official blog about a security breach that impacted 1.7 million users. This breach had occurred back in 2014. The company learned about this from security researcher Troy Hunt. What was compromised in the Imgur security breach? Data of 1.7 million Imgur…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 07:21:16 +0000
Ransomware outbreaks have been on the rise for quite some time now but suddenly we are observing a change in this trend. Seems like the rise observed in cryptocurrency valuations especially for Bitcoins is making attackers to go after cryptocurrency mining. Cryptocurrency miner malware have become hot attack vectors for…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:03:55 +0000
For any business, suffering a data breach is bad. But, not informing its customers about the breach is downright worse. And Uber, a global transportation app company, has made itself into a glaring example of the above statement. Last Tuesday (21.11.2017), Uber Technologies revealed that hackers were able to compromise…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:03:55 +0000
For any business, suffering a data breach is bad. But, not informing its customers about the breach is downright worse. And Uber, a global transportation app company, has made itself into a glaring example of the above statement. Last Tuesday (21.11.2017), Uber Technologies revealed that hackers were able to compromise…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:07:37 +0000
This story has been sourced from Hindustan Times. On November 18, a businessman from Powai, Mumbai, received an email that looked like it was sent by a close friend. In the email, the friend informed that he is stuck somewhere and that he needed an urgent loan of ₹5.8 lakh…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 07:22:40 +0000
The Quick Heal Quarterly Threat Report is a detailed analysis of cybersecurity threats that prevail during a particular quarter affecting the Windows and Android platform. Our Q3 (July – September) Threat Report is up and here are the 9 important things that we must know. #1. Quick Heal detected over…
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