According to news reports, the Maze cybercrime gang is closing down its operations after rising to become one of the most leading players carrying out ransomware attacks. The Maze ransomware started operating in May 2019 but became more active in November, by introducing a double-extortion approach. Ransomware operations have always appreciated mocking Continue Reading
This week, researchers noticed that Emotet attacks using a new prototype that feigns to be a Microsoft Office message exhorting the receiver to inform their Microsoft Word to add a new feature. Emotet junk messages influence templates to trick the victims into allowing macros to start the infection. Once malware Continue Reading
Emotet, the infamous banking trojan, is hyperactive presently and its operators continue to come up with new ruses and updates. The notorious trojan is one of the major sources of malspam at the moment and has been detected delivering several malware payloads. Lately, the trojan has been found using false Windows Continue Reading
An alliance of technology companies announced on Monday that it had orchestrated a takedown of the TrickBot malware botnet. The organizations that took part in the takedown included Microsoft’s Defender team, FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, NTT, and Broadcom’s cyber-security division Symantec. Prior to the takedown were probes from Continue Reading
A new ransomware vaccine program has been developed that terminates processes that use Microsoft’s vssadmin.exe application to strive to remove volume shadow copies. Windows can make copies of your system and data files every day and save them in snapshots of Shadow volume copy. If they are mistakenly changed Continue Reading
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