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Coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak has terrified people all over the world. Global Tourist movement saw a decline due to new coronavirus cases popping up in different countries. Scammers saw this as an opportunity & initiated coronavirus phishing attacks to steal personal data. Security researchers from a leading cyber security firm discovered the cyber attack which is a variant of email phishing scams. Criminals impersonate WHO officials & issue fraud and false statements in the email stating a COVID-19 alert or safety precautions. Accessing such emails laden with malicious links & attachments will result in exposing your precious information like usernames & passwords to hackers. WHO has already declared COVID-19 as a Global Public Health Emergency & issued safety precautions on their official website. However, scammers are utilizing the scepticism surrounding coronavirus. Thus, they are running a phishing campaign which lures people into exposing ...

Guide to Remove Adage Ransomware- Adage Ransomware is the recent menace to the computer-users around the world that is encrypting the files & rendering them inaccessible to the users. As per the cyber-security researchers, Adage is another threatening member in the infamous crypto-virus family, Phobos Ransomware . Commonly used internet services such as spam e-mail campaigns & fake software updaters are considered as the prime methods of propagation of Adage infection. Once the system infected, Adage Virus encrypts user & system files & renames them by adding victims unique ID, hacker’s e-mail address & “adage” extension to the file names. The encrypted files are instantly made unusable to the users. In addition to that, Adage Ransomware drops a ransom-demanding note & runs a HTML application on the victim’s desktop. The ransom note suggests the victims to contact the hackers & pay them ransom to get the encrypted data restored. Most of ...

Understanding TFlower ransomware A new ransomware has been discovered by the cyber security experts. Known as TFlower ransomware , it is high-risk malware. The malicious virus showed its unethical presence in August for the first time. There after it makes its way onto corporate networks. The malicious .TFlower file virus attacks the targeted system via exposed Remote Desktop Services (RDS). Alike other ransomware-like software, TFlower Ransomware attack the stored files and corrupts them with unique extension. As a result, the files become unreadable and can only be access after decoding it. However, it is just the beginning of menace caused by TFlower virus ! Upon successful encryption, a ransom demanding message is created in each folder. This file states the process to obtain TFlower decryption tool along with specifying the amount of ransom to be paid. Keep in mind that you have to make the payment in bitcoins. Additionally, the destructive TFlower extension a...

Guide to Remove Nemty Ransomware  Nemty Ransomware is the recent weapon in the arsenal of the gigantic Ransomware family. It is a high-risk Ransomware -infection that has been developed with a strong financial motive. It is currently spreading at an alarming rate via exposed Remote Desktop Connections. Once the system is infected, it searches every nook & corner of the system for the targeted files. When found, it employs a complex Encryption Algorithms to make encrypt the files & instantly makes its inaccessible. It renames the files by adding Nemty extension to the file names. Following the encryption of the targeted files, it drops a ransom-demanding note in all the existing folders that contain .Nemty files. This ransom-demanding note is in text format & named “NEMTY-DECRPYT.txt” The note suggests that the only way to restore the encrypted files is to contact the hackers & pay ransom amount. It further states that failing to co-operate with ...

Understanding Banta Ransomware Banta ransomware – Another high-risk variant of Phobos ransomware family ! It was 21 st October, 2017, when this infamous ransomware make its presence felt for the first time. The file-encrypting virus targets the personal documents stored in the compromised system. In order to ensure successful encryption, ransomware uses strong encryption algorithm. Similar to its parent ransomware, Banta virus uses RSA and AES cryptographies to encrypt files. The encrypted files are renamed & appended with unique extension – ‘.banta’ and hence making them inaccessible. The malicious virus is recognized by the Banta extension , which is appended to the filenames. After successful encryption, the malicious crypto virus aims to extort large amount of money from the users. Let us understand the menace caused by .Banta file virus . Tips to prevent your system from Banta Ransomware 

Guide to Remove Agent Smith Virus Cyber-security is one of the major concerns that the world is dealing with today. Devious variants of Ransomware , Spyware & Viruses seem to sprang up every now & then, to steal personal information of the users & extort money from them. While renowned cyber-security firms assure that most of such issues are under control, the attack of Agent Smith Virus melted the veil away. Agent Smith Virus is a new variant of android phones malware that surfaced to lime-light last week. It has infected over 25 Million Android users around the globe so far, including 15 million mobile devices in India. This new advertising malware is targeting the infected devices with dubious & malicious pop-up ads, when the users open the apps. Reports by Check Point, an Israel-based IT firm, states that Agent Smith Virus is propagating its infection through the unverified apps that are available on third-party app stores. How to Remove...

With traversing advancement in technology, stealing digital data & swindling the innocent users has become cakewalk for cyber criminals. Hence, it is crucial for the users to stay one step ahead of the pernicious dodges of scammers & practice digital data protection solutions. You can imagine the loss caused to a user after he loses all his digital life, including banking credentials, credit card details & social media accounts. A recent digital data study revealed that a user’s entire digital life can be sold by cyber criminals for a less than 50 US Dollars. Insight in to the Recent Digital Data Theft Many of us might have heard of or fallen dupe to cyber crimes like identity or data theft, however comparatively a few people realize the value of the data stolen. Scientists from a Russian cyber security firm, Kaspersky Lab conducted a research on research on Cyber crime & found that a user’s identity may not worth a lot in dollars; however it serves as a cru...

Google’s semi-obsolete Social Network platform, Google+, is in the negative spotlight again as it has exposed personal information of around 52.5 million Google+ users second time this year! Google+ has suffered this ruinous Data Breach for a record second time in consecutive three months. The Tech Giant, Google said in a blog post on Monday that software amendments introduced to Google+ in November 2018 had a bug enclosed in Google+ People API. The Large spread of this Bug in Google+ took place in form of an update released by Google making them the evil eye. Insight in to First Pernicious Data Breach of Google+ This Internet-based Social Network was launched by Google in June 2011 in order to serve as a social spine for different services of Google like Adwords and YouTube. Google integrated distinct unique features to Google+ in order to make it stand out of the crowd of popular social networking services. Alas, the fame of Google+ & Google’s efforts to hike up Google+ wen...

Technological advancements continue to create a friction-less lifestyle in all aspects ranging from the digital workplace to personalized customer experiences. Twenty-five years ago, making cash withdrawal, depositing a paycheck, paying bills meant taking a trip to your bank or service centers, interact with concerned people. This is not all! Lack of online presence also involved a lot of paper clutter, account management, & other cumbersome tasks that caused a lot of inconvenience. Online existence of businesses and services has made our lives a piece of cake. It is deemed as a useful lifestyle innovation. From customer experience standpoint, technologies such as online banking, online bill payment, online travel booking, and flight check-ins reflect an appetite for smoother, instant processes. Online transactions remove almost all inconveniences along the customer journey & provide a stellar customer experience. Technology has enlightened lives in general, but, as we know...

Kevin Haley has been associated with Symantec from last ten years now and handles the Product Management for Cyber Security & Response as a Director! Kevin has strengthened Symantec’s operations and has contributed a lot in the success of channel business strategies. Security & Response project at Symantec is specifically responsible to keep Symantec geared up with the cyber threat definitions updated almost real time! This could be only possible with timely integration of the logical cure for the entire discovered and reported cyber security threats world-wide! It seems a cumbersome task to organize! That is where the experience & expertise of Kevin Haley comes in Play! Kevin leads the Symantec’s Global intelligence Network that gathers all these reported cyber security threats via different mediums. With the Intelligence applied by the think tank at Symantec under Kevin’s Supervision, This Global Intelligence Network all these samples are then verified and churned ...

Do you aspire to take your unbeknownst website to the top level of Fame? Do you seek Internet presence for your business or organization? Do you yearn to add credibility to your online business and give it a unique identity? Successful registration of a domain name for your website can add a feather to its cap. Domain names now days are deemed as online real estate. It is considered vital to have an online presence for your business to flourish to new heights. It provides a platform for the potential customers to make successful business transactions without worrying about the limitations that would have restrained them otherwise. The geographic location is considered to be one of these limitations. There shouldn’t be any denial to the fact that Domain name designs and business growth go hand in hand! Technically a domain name cannot be bought forever. Based on the Domain registration and web hosting company, you can register a domain for up to 10 years. When a domain nam...

Online Community site, Reddit, informed its users that the company’s servers were breached by hackers, who had gained access to user data. The data breach was accomplished by successfully bypassing or circumventing the SMS based authentication on Reddit servers. The hacker was able to obtain information about some current email addresses and a backup database from 2007 which contained old salted hashed passwords. The data breach occurred between June 14 and June 18 of which the company learned about on June 19. The attacker was able to compromise a few employee accounts with the company’s cloud and source code hosting providers. The Company has its primary access points for code and infrastructure behind strong authentication that requires two factor authentication (2FA). The attacker gained read-only access to some of Reddit systems that contained source code, backup data and other logs. This was a serious attack on the Reddit systems and if the attacker had gained write acces...

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warns users against ERP Attack Department of Homeland Security of America has warned users against impending cyber attacks on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. Homeland security  is a US based national security that ensures that the area of the country within the national boundary is safe, secure and resilient against terror attacks. The basis of this warning is the report published by Threat Intelligence firms that depicts that there has been a sudden surge in the interest of the hackers to target ERP systems who may use both hacking and DDoS (Distributed denial of Service) attacks to carry out disruption and compromise these high-value assets. Attacks of this nature were first warned in May 2016 when the exploitation on 36 global organizational institutions was suspected through the abuse of the seven year old vulnerability in SAP applications. What is ERP? Why cyber criminals target ERP systems? ERP (Enterpris...

What is WhiteClick Toolbar? WhiteClick Toolbar is malicious program categorized as a potentially unwanted program & classified as a  Browser Hijacker .  This unwanted program trespasses into the system and alters the web browser settings to install its own search engine, home page, new tab and a toolbar without user permission. WhiteClick toolbar uses the method of software bundling as its main mode of transmission. This program can be bundled with third party software like media-players, torrent downloads of popular software etc. The users often rush during the installation of software and fail to notice the additional software within the installer. It is important to always check the Custom/Advanced setting during setup and remove any additional software bundled with the program. Doing this keeps unwanted and intrusive software out of the system. Spam email attachments also contain the virus payload. Cyber crooks use spam emails to get unsuspecting us...

What is Javhd.com Pop-up? Javhd.com is a Japanese porn website. It is not exactly a malware but continuous usage can inadvertently lead to  adware  getting installed in your system without approval. Users who visit the website often and browse through its contents, start getting unwanted and intrusive pop-ups in their web browser. Javhd.com Pop-ups are built to generate revenue through every click by the users. These pop-ups often contain illicit and adult content which will leave you feeling embarrassed if you are sitting in a public place. So, it is important to get rid of this nasty adware. Javhd.com Pop-up – Threat Behavior Javhd.com Pop-up gets into your system through malicious links or directly from its domain page. Regular visits on this domain page can bait you into clicking on links that might be unsecured or carry suspicious content. These malicious links will install the Javhd.com Pop-up adware into your system. The javhd.com pop-up will start...

What is ‘My Email Hub’ Browser Redirect? ‘ My Email Hub ’ is a malicious browser plug-in that hijacks user’s browsers. The pernicious browser extension is created by cyber offenders to take control of all the installed web browsers and infect them by displaying sponsored ads that may be malevolent. The installation of this browser plug-in also ruins user’s browsing experience as their online search results are inaccurate as they are redirected to sponsored web pages to promote affiliated websites. These web domains are malicious and host infectious code. This makes the victimized PC susceptible to many other system infections. This nasty  Browser Hijacker  lures user to install the free browser plug-in by making false claims of providing one- click access to email accounts right from user New Tab page. The nasty extension prompts user to download and install the plug-in with the promise of not having to type the URL of the email provider again and providing quick acc...