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
Over the past week, security alerts have been published by cyber-security companies from France, Japan, and New Zealand warning of a sudden and huge upsurge in Emotet malware attacks aimed at their respective countries. Emotet activity defined in the warnings refers to email spam drives that started from Emotet infrastructure and targeted Continue Reading
Threat investigators have unveiled a new malware, KryptoCibule, which is centered on getting an adequate amount of cryptocurrency from its victims. To this end, it pilfers wallets, hijacks transactions, and begins mining on infected machines. The malware has existed for almost two years, extending its functionality with each new version. Continue Reading
In August, the Emotet botnet operators began using a new template, named ‘Red Dawn,’ for the malevolent attachments used in new operations. The Emotet malware returned in July 2020, following a five-month hiatus, and started vomiting huge amounts of malicious spam across the globe. These spam operations pretend to be invoices, shipping information, COVID-19 Continue Reading
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