Emotet’s back and it isn’t wasting any time

Emotet is one of the best known, and most dangerous, malware threats of the past several years. On several occasions it appeared to take an early retirement, but it has always came back. In January of this year, a global police operation dismantled Emotets botnet. Law enforcement then used their...

Talos Takes Ep. #79: Emotet's back with the worst type of holiday present

By Jon Munshaw. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. Emotet is back, and it brought the worst possible holiday present just in time for peak spam season, too!. We... This is...

Emotet being spread via malicious Windows App Installer packages

As reported by Cryptolaemus on Twitter, and demonstrated step by step by BleepingComputer, Emotet is now being distributed through malicious Windows App Installer packages that pretend to be Adobe PDF software. How does the attack work? To understand what Microsoft is supposed to do about this...

Back from the dead: Emotet re-emerges, begins rebuilding to wrap up 2021

Executive summary Emotet has been one of the most widely distributed threats over the past several years. It has typically been observed being distributed via malicious spam email campaigns, and often leads to additional malware infections as it provides threat actors with an initial foothold in...

Emotet malware reemerges, building botnet via Trickbot malware

By Deeba Ahmed Bad news for the cybersecurity fraternity. Emotet malware that was dubbed the World's Most Dangerous and Widely Spread Malware is back. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Emotet malware reemerges, building botnet via Trickbot malware...

TrickBot helps Emotet come back from the dead

Probably one of the best known threats for the past several years, Emotet has always been under intense scrutiny from the infosec community. On several occasions, it appeared to take an early retirement, but then again it came back. However, when multiple law enforcement agencies seized control o...

Emotet Resurfaces on the Back of TrickBot After Nearly a Year

Emotet, one of the most prolific and disruptive botnet malware-delivery systems, appears to be making a comeback after nearly a year of inactivity, researchers have found. A team of researchers from Cryptolaemus, G DATA and AdvIntel recently observed the TrickBot trojan launching what appears to ...

Notorious Emotet Botnet Makes a Comeback with the Help of TrickBot Malware

The notorious Emotet malware is staging a comeback of sorts nearly 10 months after a coordinated law enforcement operation dismantled its command-and-control infrastructure in late January 2021. According to a new report from security researcher Luca Ebach, the infamous TrickBot malware is being...

Hackers Using Squirrelwaffle Loader to Deploy Qakbot and Cobalt Strike

A new spam email campaign has emerged as a conduit for a previously undocumented malware loader that enables the attackers to gain an initial foothold into enterprise networks and drop malicious payloads on compromised systems. "These infections are also used to facilitate the delivery of...

We COVID-Clicked on Garbage, Report Finds: Podcast

Squawking pets, stir-crazy kids, Tiger King: Is it any wonder that work-from-home humans clicked on malicious CAPTCHAs at the astonishing rate of 50 times more than the non-pandemic year before? In the company’s annual Human Factor 2021 report assessing how the threat landscape morphed over the...

Malware Makers Using ‘Exotic’ Programming Languages

Malware authors are increasingly using rarely spotted programming languages such as Go, Rust, Nim and DLang in order to create new tools and to hinder analysis, researchers have found. Use of those four languages is escalating in the number of malware families being identified, according to a...

Police seize DoubleVPN data, servers, and domain

A coordinated effort between global law enforcement agencies—led by the Dutch National Police—shut down a VPN service that was advertised on cybercrime forums. The VPN company promised users the ability to double- and triple-encrypt their web traffic to obscure their location and identity. The...

Avaddon Ransomware Gang Evaporates Amid Global Crackdowns

Ransomware group Avaddon has decided to shutter its criminal enterprise after landing in the crosshairs of law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Australia. Avaddon, a prolific ransomware-as-a-service RaaS provider, released its decryption keys to BleepingComputer — 2,934 in total — with each k...

Police Grab Slilpp, Biggest Stolen-Logins Market

The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ announced on Thursday that a multinational operation has led to the seizure of Slilpp, a well-known marketplace for selling stolen online logins that offered more than 80 million sets of credentials for sale. Since 2012, Slilpp has been an underground market to...

U.S. Authorities Shut Down Slilpp—Largest Marketplace for Stolen Logins

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ Thursday said it disrupted and took down the infrastructure of an underground marketplace known as "Slilpp" that specialized in trading stolen login credentials as part of an international law enforcement operation. Over a dozen individuals have been charged or...

IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, in Q1 2021: Kaspersky solutions blocked 2,023,556,082 attacks launched from online resources across the...

Observed Changes to the Threat Landscape in 2020

Reflecting on the cybersecurity threat landscape in 2020, we can't overlook the massive changes that landed on us. Global security attacks increased at a significant pace between 2019 and 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic only deepened these troubling conditions. As corporations tried to adapt to...

Emotet Malware Destroys Itself From All Infected Computers

Emotet, the notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, was automatically wiped from infected computers en masse following a European law enforcement operation. The development comes three months after a coordinated disruption of Emote...

IcedID Banking Trojan Surges: The New Emotet?

The banking trojan known as IcedID appears to be taking the place of the recently disrupted Emotet trojan, according to researchers. IcedID a.k.a. BokBot, bears similarities to Emotet in that it’s a modular malware that started life as a banking trojan used to steal financial information...

Financial Cyberthreats in 2020

2020 was challenging for everyone: companies, regulators, individuals. Due to the limitations imposed by the epidemiological situation, particular categories of users and businesses were increasingly targeted by cybercriminals. While we were adjusting to remote work and the rest of the new...