Rise of Covid-19 Malwares: How to Protect Your Passwords from being Stolen

XenArmor — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:45:38 +0000

Current panic times over global Covid-19 crisis has laid out perfect ground for cyber criminals to launch their malicious attacks with high success rate. Now a days, every one is in panic mode constantly looking for latest updates on Corona virus. Also more people are sitting idle at home browsing internet clicking on every messages, emails they are getting. This situation has lead to rise of 1000’s of Covid-19 malwares exploiting innocent users by stealing their passwords, bank accounts, bitcoins and more. As per Kaspersky Labs over 2600 Covid-19 related malwares have been released since January 2020. How Covid-19 Malwares are Distributed in Wild? Here are some of the latest examples used by cyber criminals to lure innocent victims to steal their passwords and money. As per cyber security company Check Point software, attackers are sending emails in the name of government or health organisation. These emails luring users to visit malicious page or download malware attachments In Japan, malicious emails sent in the name of Japanese disability welfare service. These email contains attachment hiding the notorious Emotet malware. In Indonesia, malware named LokiBot was sent through phishing emails on Covid-19. This malware is used to steal email credentials as well as steal passwords of crypto coin wallets & FTP servers. In Italy, cyber security firm Sophos found emails with Word documents on how to avoid Covid-19 infection. On opening this Word document, VBA script will be executed silently to install TrickBot malware on victim’s computer. In one of the latest scheme, live Corona virus infections map produced by Johns Hopkins University is being used in malicious Web sites (and possibly spam emails) to spread malware as mentioned here. In USA, emails sent using malicious domains like cdc-gov.org (original domain is cdc.gov) representing “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)”,...

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WhatsApp Hack – 5 Steps to Secure Your Passwords & Data

XenArmor — Tue, 14 May 2019 21:07:42 +0000

You may have already heard of recent WhatsApp Hack termed as unprecedented security flaw in the history of cyber security, virtually making everyone who runs WhatsApp a potential victim. According to WhatsApp, with this critical vulnerability attack, any hacker can gain access to your phone and install spyware to control & monitor everything that you do. The attack was developed by Israeli security firm NSO Group which sells its surveillance software to government & law enforcement agencies. How Your Phone can be Hacked using WhatsApp? As per security advisory released by Facebook (owner of WhatsApp), this is due to critical buffer overflow vulnerability in WhatsApp VOIP functionality. Using this attacker can just ring victim on WhatsApp & take over his/her phone by installing spyware. This attack is so dangerous that victim does not even have to pick up the call. So virtually any hacker can just call anyone on WhatsApp to gain complete control. You can read more interesting details here. Now how can you find out if your phone was hacked and how to protect your important passwords & sensitive data. Here are 5 easy steps that can help you to detect & prevent your phone from being hacked 1. Update WhatsApp WhatsApp has already released new update to fix this security vulnerability. If you have not yet updated your WhatsApp then first thing you have to do is to update it from Play Store in Android or App Store on iPhone. 2. Perform Security Scan Once you have updated WhatsApp, next scan your phone using security vulnerability scanner. This will help you to quickly find and remove any spywares running on your phone. 3. Unroot Android or Unjailbreak iPhone If are using rooted Android or jailbroken iPhone then you are in danger of losing more of your...

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Rise of Covid-19 Malwares: How to Protect Your Passwords from being Stolen

WhatsApp Hack – 5 Steps to Secure Your Passwords & Data