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Chennai: Chennai has recorded over eight million malware threats targeted to consumers in 2020 revealed Quick Heal in its latest threat report. It said Chennai witnessed new trends with the advent of social engineering techniques tricking users into opening infected files and links through fake Covid-19 information. The report further highlighted that Trojan was the highest detected malware in Chennai followed by Infector Worm and Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA). “The most common technique adopted by attackers is social engineering wherein they use psychological manipulation to lure users into clicking on suspicious links. “Besides people should follow basic security measures such as avoiding internet banking while using public Wi-Fi using strong passwords enabling multi-factor authentication and changing passwords frequently”..