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Currently around 5.500 Emotet attacks every day
Kaspersky_news

Current Kaspersky figures show that around 5.500 Emotet attacks are currently taking place every day. Denis Parinov and Oleg Kupreev, security experts at Kaspersky, comment on the new attack activity as follows. “We have been following Emotet's activities for a long time. Recently we actually saw new samples of this family 'in the wild', but at the moment we don't expect the attacks to be as massive as they were before the Emotet backers were arrested. We are currently seeing around 5.500 attacks every day. We also see malicious documents that act as downloaders (Microsoft Word documents, document archives, links to such malicious documents). We will the…

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Botnet: Trickbot still active

Trickbot online banking trojan group remains active. Analyzes show that new VNC modules with additional functions are being developed for the botnet. A technical report by Bogdan Botezatu, Director of Threat Research & Reporting at Bitdefender. Trickbot malware and its associated botnet have been active since it was first discovered in 2016. The attacker group behind it has managed to infect several million PCs worldwide during this time. The Trickbot actors who emerged from the Dyre malware environment have built a veritable ecosystem of plug-in modules and additional components and are continuously working on new functionalities: The experts are currently monitoring the further development of ...

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What's the point of breaking up Emotet?
Fireeye News

“Emotet has always been one of the most widespread malware families in recent years. What are the long-term benefits of breaking up Emotet? A comment from FireEye. While it has historically been linked to home banking fraud, the malware has also been used to spread spam and secondary malware since 2017. We believe this was done on behalf of a limited number of groups using Emotet as malware-as-a-service. Ransomware campaigns with Emotet Between October 2020 and January 2021 we observed that Emotet spread several malware variants. These were used to launch ransomware campaigns ...

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Community action smashes TrickBot botnet
Eset_News

Operation TrickBot: Community action paralyzes global eCrime network. ESET researchers supported the successful strike against a large TrickBot botnet. The IT security industry strikes back: ESET researchers took part in a global operation against the TrickBot botnet, which has infected over a million computers since 2016. Together with Microsoft, Black Lotus Labs Threat Research from Lumen, NTT and other companies, the offensive has put the global eCrime network TrickBot under massive pressure. Thanks to the joint action, it was possible to carry out an important blow against the backbone of the cyber crime network and paralyze its command and control server. ESET contributed with detailed technical ...

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Malware: QakBot overtakes TrickBot
News B2B Cyber ​​Security

Cybersecurity specialists are currently registering a new wave of the QakBot info dealer. The malware is distributed via the Emotet botnet, displacing more and more TrickBot there. IT security experts are currently observing a new wave of Zero Outage malware from info stealer QakBot. The Zscaler virus hunters report that many newly registered domains are currently being used to distribute QakBot. Matching articles on the topic

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