15 years of Qakbot – a review
Qakbot (aka QBot or Pinkslipbot) is a Trojan with a 15-year evolutionary history. From its origins as a banking Trojan, it continued to evolve into malware, which is now used for lateral distribution in a network and the deployment of ransomware. After being broken up by law enforcement authorities in August 2023, the 5th version of Qakbot was released a few months later. Zscaler analyzed the transformation of a resilient, persistent and innovative malware. Recently, the security researchers discovered that the threat actors have updated their code base to support 64-bit versions of Windows. In addition,…
