In a coordinated action, multiple law enforcement agencies have seized control of the Emotet botnet. Agencies from eight countries worked together…
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New Emotet delivery method spotted during downward detection trend
Emotet, one of cybersecurity’s most-feared malware threats, got a superficial facelift this week, hiding itself within a fake Microsoft Office request…
Fake “Corona Antivirus” distributes BlackNET remote administration tool
Scammers and malware authors are taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis in full swing. We have seen a number of spam…
Emotet malspam campaign uses Snowden’s new book as lure
Exactly one week ago, Emotet, one of the most dangerous threats to organizations in the last year, resumed its malicious spam…
Emotet is back: botnet springs back to life with new spam campaign
After a fairly long hiatus that lasted nearly four months, Emotet is back with an active spam distribution campaign. For a…
A week in security (June 3 – 9)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we rounded up some leaks and breaches, reported about Magecart skimmers found on Amazon CloudFront CDN,…
4 lessons to be learned from the DOE’s DDoS attack
Analysts, researchers, industry professionals, and pundits alike have all posited the dangers of the next-generation “smart grid,” particularly when it comes…
Electrum DDoS botnet reaches 152,000 infected hosts
By Jérôme Segura, Adam Thomas, and S!Ri We have been closely monitoring the situation involving the continued attacks against users of…
Electrum Bitcoin wallets under siege
By Adam Thomas and Jérôme Segura, with additional contributions from Vasilios Hioueras and S!Ri Since at least late December 2018, many…
Emotet revisited: pervasive threat still a danger to businesses
Correction, 5/22/19: Previously, we incorrectly stated that Emotet was using an EternalBlue vulnerability in order to spread laterally within a network….