Spam Campaigns Spread Trickbot Malware with Tax Lure

Hackers pushing the TrickBot banking trojan are exploiting tax season by pushing malicious Microsoft Excel spreadsheet documents via spam campaigns. Researchers said that they discovered the malware in three different campaigns since Jan. 27, 2019. These campaigns target victims with emails...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Email VBS Downloader Connects to C2 Server, Downloads Trickbot Payload

Carbon Black recently learned a customer had received a malicious email attached with a zip file which contained a malicious VBS script file. This malicious VBS downloader will connect to a Command & Control server and then download a malicious payload which contains Trickbot onto the victim’s...

Emotet revisited: pervasive threat still a danger to businesses

One of the most common and pervasive threats for businesses today is Emotet, a banking Trojan turned downloader that has been on our list of top 10 detections for many months in a row. Emotet, which Malwarebytes detects as Trojan.Emotet, has been leveled at consumers and organizations across the...

MS-ISAC Releases Security Primer on TrickBot Malware

The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center MS-ISAC has released a security primer on TrickBot malware. TrickBot is a modular banking Trojan that targets users’ financial information and acts as a dropper for other malware. An attacker can leverage TrickBot’s modules to steal banking...

Ryuk, Exploring the Human Connection

ARCHIVED STORY Ryuk, Exploring the Human Connection By John Fokker · Febraury 19, 2019 In collaboration with Bill Siegel and Alex Holdtman from Coveware At the beginning of 2019, McAfee ATR published an article describing how the hasty attribution of Ryuk ransomware to North Korea was missing the...

Trickbot Malware Goes After Remote Desktop Credentials

The banking trojan known as Trickbot has resurfaced, with an updated info-stealing module that allows it to harvest remote desktop application credentials. According to Trend Micro’s Noel Anthony Llimos and Carl Maverick Pascual, a new variant has recently come on the scene, and is being spread v...

Ryuk Hauls in $3.7M in 'Earnings,' Adds TrickBot to the Attack Mix

The Ryuk ransomware has raked in $3.7 million in bitcoin payments since it first appeared last August, researchers say – and has emerged as the calling card for a crime organization called Grim Spider a.k.a. MixMaster. It turns out that Grim Spider could share a link with other crime syndicates,...

imaginaryC2 - Tool Which Aims To Help In The Behavioral (Network) Analysis Of Malware

author: Felix Weyne website Twitter Imaginary C2 is a python tool which aims to help in the behavioral network analysis of malware. Imaginary C2 hosts a HTTP server which captures HTTP requests towards selectively chosen domains/IPs. Additionally, the tool aims to make it easy to replay captured...

New ‘Under the Radar’ report examines modern threats and future technologies

As if you haven't heard it enough from us, the threat landscape is changing. It's always changing, and usually not for the better. The new malware we see being developed and deployed in the wild have features and techniques that allow them to go beyond what they were originally able to do, either...

A week in security (November 12 – 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we found out that TrickBot became a top business threat, so we took a deeper look at what's new with it. With Christmas just around the corner, the Secret Sister scam returned. We also touched on the security and privacy or lack thereof in smart jewelry, air traffi...

TrickBot takes over as top business threat

Last quarter brought with it a maddening number of political ads, shocking and divisive news stories on climate change and gun laws, and mosquitoes. We hate mosquitoes. In related unpleasant news, it also apparently ushered in an era of banking Trojans that, as of this moment, shows no signs of...

What’s new in TrickBot? Deobfuscating elements

Trojan.TrickBot has been present in the threat landscape from quite a while. We wrote about its first version in October 2016. From the beginning, it was a well organized modular malware, written by developers with mature skills. It is often called a banker, however its modular structure allows t...

This Week in Security News: Fake Apps & Malicious Bots

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn how the adoption of mobile banking services has grown as an opportunity for scammers with fake banking apps. Also, see how Trickbot...

Emotet on the rise with heavy spam campaign

The threat landscape is changing once again, now that the ocean of cryptocurrency miners has shrunk to a small lake. Over the last couple months, we've seen cybercriminals lean back on tried and true methods of financial theft and extortion, with the rise of a familiar Banking Trojan: Emotet...

ThreatList: Microsoft Macros Remain Top Vector for Malware Delivery

Attacks using malicious Microsoft macros, always a popular method for compromising target machines, are more virulent than ever, accounting for 45 percent of all delivery mechanisms analyzed in August. Top Malware Delivery Mechanisms in August Just behind this tried-and-true method lies the...

New Trickbot Variant Touts Stealthy Code-Injection Trick

Trickbot has been around since 2016 – but a new variant of the infamous financial trojan has caught the eyes of researchers with a stealthy code-injection technique. Researchers at Cyberbit this week said that they have found a new Trickbot iteration that features a sneaky method of performing...

ThreatList: Biggest Cybercrime Developments in 2018, So Far

Despite several successful crackdowns on several cybercriminal underworld gangs, miscreants have been highly active during the first half of 2018, according Flashpoint. According to Flashpoint’s mid-year Business Risk Intelligence report, released last month, the major developments in the...

Smoking Guns - Smoke Loader learned new tricks

This post is authored by Ben Baker and Holger Unterbrink Overview Cisco Talos has been tracking a new version of Smoke Loader — a malicious application that can be used to load other malware — for the past several months following an alert from Cisco Advanced Malware Protection’s AMP Exploit...

Botnet Operators Team Up To Leverage IcedID, Trickbot Trojans

The botnet operators behind two infamous banking trojans have banded together to gouge victims of cash in a tricky collaborative scheme. Flashpoint analysts, who highlighted the collaboration in a Wednesday report, said that the operators behind the IcedID and TrickBot trojans appear to be...

RIG malvertising campaign uses cryptocurrency theme as decoy

For a couple of weeks, we have been observing a malvertising campaign that uses decoy websites to redirect users to the RIG exploit kit. Those sites, whose theme is about cryptocurrencies, were all registered recently and are swapped after a few days of use. The initial redirection starts off fro...