New ‘Under the Radar’ report examines modern threats and future technologies
Malwarebytes released a new report called “Under the Radar: The Future of Undetected Malware” that takes a look at current threats using next generation tricks, and how current security technologies stand up to these threats, as well as the threats to come.
A week in security (November 12 – 18)
A roundup of security news from November 12 to 18, including TrickBot, smart jewelry, Secret Sisters scam, and the compromise of air traffic control.
TrickBot takes over as top business threat
There’s a newer, more sophisticated banking Trojan in town attempting to penetrate business networks and giving Emotet a run for its money. And its name is TrickBot. Learn how this threat is giving organizations a run for their money.
What’s new in TrickBot? Deobfuscating elements
TrickBot has been present in the threat landscape from quite a while. We wrote about its first version in October 2016. October 2018 marks end of the second year since TrickBot’s appearance. Possibly the authors decided to celebrate the anniversary by a makeover of some significant elements of the core. This post is an analysis of the updated obfuscation used by TrickBot’s main module.
Emotet on the rise with heavy spam campaign
Over the last few days, we’ve noticed a large increase in malicious spam spreading Emotet, as well as a higher number of detections from our customers. Looks like we’re in the middle of an active Emotet campaign.
Labs report: summer ushers in unprecedented season of breaches
In this edition of the Malwarebytes Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report, we saw a number of high profile breaches targeting the personal information of hundreds of millions of people. We also observed shifts in malware distribution, the revival of some old families, and found cases of international tech support scams.
TrickBot comes up with new tricks: attacking Outlook and browsing data
TrickBot is still actively maintained and it is not going to leave the threat landscape any soon. Take a look at its new modules that attack
Introducing TrickBot, Dyreza’s successor
Recently, our analyst Jérôme Segura captured an interesting payload in the wild. It turned out to be a new bot, that, at the moment of the analysis, hadn’t been described yet.