Note: This is a technical deep-dive into DearCry ransomware. If you want a preliminary analysis of the ransomware, you can find it here. The Network Intelligence team initiated a Static analysis of the ransomware sample we received. The team used a tool called PEstudio, which helps in the static analysis of executable files. Static Analysis […]
Note: We have also done a technical analysis on DearCry. Read here. It’s a warm summer morning. While sipping your morning coffee, you access the work email. But you’re unable to log in. After trying a few tricks you’ve read up in some tech blogs, you reach out to your IT team. They remote log-in […]
Multiple threat actors, including Hafnium, LuckyMouse, Calypso, Winnti, Bronze Butler, Websiic, Tonto, Mikroceen, and DLTMiner, are actively targeting four zero-day Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2021-27065) in their targeted malware attacks and hacking campaigns. These threat actors managed to compromise nearly 30,000 Microsoft Exchange servers located within the United States. Approximately 7,000 organizations worldwide […]
Clubhouse and its exponential growth during COVID-19 Clubhouse is an invite-only audio-chat iPhone app founded by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth. It allows users to create groups for conversations, including podcasts, audio conferences, etc. Launched in April 2020, the application became popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 600,000 registered users in December 2020, which exploded […]
Brief about the vulnerability The security feature bypass vulnerability (CVE-2020-0689) allows attackers to bypass the secure boot feature and load untrusted or malicious software during the Windows boot-up process. While this vulnerability created panic among Microsoft customers, Microsoft released a security update (KB4535680) to tackle the same. But the update has caused further inconvenience to […]
Global Cyber Security Spends The world seems to have undergone a decade’s worth of cybersecurity acceleration within a brief period of one year. And that shows in the cybersecurity spends made across the globe. Gartner has forecasted global Cyber Security Spends to remain on a growth trajectory, despite the worldwide pandemic, and touching $123 billion […]
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