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‘Operation Endgame’ Hits Malware Delivery Platforms

May 30, 2024 0 Comments 911 s5, europol, icedid, lockbit, matt burgess, Ne'er-Do-Well News, operation endgame, Ransomware, smokeloader, The Coming Storm, trickbot

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 15:19:44 +0000

Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today announced Operation Endgame, a coordinated action against some of the most popular cybercrime platforms for delivering ransomware and data-stealing malware. Dubbed “the largest ever operation against botnets,” the international effort is being billed as the opening salvo in an ongoing campaign targeting advanced malware “droppers” or “loaders” like IcedID, Smokeloader and Trickbot.

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Bad ad fad leads to IcedID, Gozi infections

July 20, 2023 0 Comments batloader, fakebat, featured, gozi, icedid, malvertising, mdr, security operations, sophos x-ops, threat research

Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:00:07 +0000

Malvertising campaigns using paid ads result in infostealer and backdoor attacks

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Emotet fixes bug in code, resumes spam campaign

April 27, 2022 0 Comments email spam campaign, emotet, icedid, malware, mark of the web, mimikatz, motw, qakbot, Qbot, trickbot

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:15:34 +0000

Emotet is back with a new spam campaign. And it’s now spreading itself as a shortcut link file pretending to be Word document.

The post Emotet fixes bug in code, resumes spam campaign appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Nearly a quarter of malware now communicates using TLS

February 18, 2020 0 Comments dridex, icedid, malware, SophosLabs Uncut, SSL, ssl inspection, TLS, trickbot

Credit to Author: Luca Nagy| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:30:07 +0000

Encryption is one of the strongest weapons malware authors can leverage: They can use it to obfuscate their code, to prevent users (in the case of ransomware) from being able to access their files, and for securing their malicious network communication. As websites and apps more widely adopt TLS (Transport Layer Security) and communicate over […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/XXvUtjG7XVU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>