Attacks Aimed at Disrupting the Trickbot Botnet

Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations. Continue reading Attacks Aimed at Disrupting the Trickbot Botnet

TrickBot Malware Warning Victims of Infection by Mistake

Security researchers observed some variants of the TrickBot malware family mistakenly warning victims that they had suffered an infection. Advanced Intel’s Vitali Kremez traced the mistake to “password-stealing grabber.dll.” This modu… Continue reading TrickBot Malware Warning Victims of Infection by Mistake

Trickbot Malware Using Screen Resolution Checks as Anti-VM Tactic

Security researchers spotted Trickbot malware checking the screen resolution as a means of evading analysis on a virtual machine (VM). Digital security firm MalwareLab came across a sample of the trojan that checked to see whether a computer’s sc… Continue reading Trickbot Malware Using Screen Resolution Checks as Anti-VM Tactic

Office 365 Users Targeted By ‘Coronavirus Employee Training’ Phish

Threat actors shift focus from COVID-19 to employee coronavirus training and current events like Black Lives Matter as cyber-attacks continue to rise. Continue reading Office 365 Users Targeted By ‘Coronavirus Employee Training’ Phish

Ryuk Ransomware Deployed Two Weeks After Initial Trickbot Infection

Several attack campaigns waited two weeks after achieving a successful Trickbot infection before they deployed Ryuk ransomware as their final payload. SentinelOne came across the attacks as the result of monitoring an attack server employed by Trickbot… Continue reading Ryuk Ransomware Deployed Two Weeks After Initial Trickbot Infection

Black Lives Matter movement exploited to spread Trickbot malware

By Deeba Ahmed
This shows there’s certainly no limit to the meanness and notoriety of cybercriminals.
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