Emotet Using TrickBot to Get Back in the Game
Emotet, which emerged in 2014, became one of the most prevalent threats of the decade, evolving into a malware downloader that allowed cybercriminals to disseminate malware such as TrickBot, the Ryuk ransomware, and the QakBot banking Trojan, as well as various other threats. In January 2021, law enforcement agencies announced they were able to take…
Law Enforcement Planning Emotet Cleanup Operation Following Botnet Takedown
One of the most prevalent botnets over the past decade, Emotet has been around since 2014, helping cybercriminals deploy their own Trojans, ransomware, and other types of malware onto compromised machines. Serving as a malware loader, Emotet has been associated with the distribution of well-known malware families, including TrickBot and Ryuk ransomware, among others. This…
4 tips for protecting users from COVID-19-targeted attacks
Attackers are using this time of crisis to go after victims with targeted campaigns. The biggest threats are phishing attacks related to COVID-19. Attackers are also setting up COVID-19-related domain names and enticing people to click on them. Anomali recently released a report that identified at least 15 distinct COVID-19-related campaigns associated with 11 threat…
Battling online coronavirus scams with facts
Panic and confusion about the recent coronavirus outbreak spurred threat actors to launch several malware campaigns across the world, relying on a tried-and-true method to infect people’s machines: fear. Cybercriminals targeted users in Japan with an Emotet campaign that included malicious Word documents that allegedly contained information about coronavirus prevention. Malware embedded into PDFs, MP4s,…
Emotet can spread to poorly secured Wi-Fi networks and computers on them
Here’s yet another reason to secure Wi-Fi networks and Windows user accounts with a strong enough password: researchers have spotted and analyzed a variant of the Emotet Trojan that is able to spread to nearby wireless networks and compromise computers on them. Emotet: An old threat Emotet is one of the most versatile malware threats…
