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Emotet 101, stage 1: The spam lure

March 5, 2019 admin 101, Bot, emotet, maldocs, malspam, malware, payload, PDF, Sophos101, SophosLabs, SophosLabs Uncut, spam, Word, XML

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:55:43 +0000

By SophosLabs Research Emotet operates on a mass scale. Everything it does, it does in bulk. A typical infection begins when the victim receives a specially crafted spam email. Emotet’s creators send these out by the thousands and, in some cases, the bots themselves send more. The lures employ mass-created malicious document files. The payload […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/7i2oOO4OT8A” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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New Golang brute forcer discovered amid rise in e-commerce attacks

February 26, 2019 admin Bot, Botnet, bruteforce, Golang, googletagmanager, Magecart, Magento, skimmer, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:00:08 +0000

E-commerce sites are a hot commodity these days. We dig into how compromised PCs are helping to hack into them to inject skimmers, whether via vulnerabilities in the websites themselves or through a new malware we discovered gaining entry via brute force.

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GandCrab Riding Emotet’s Bus!

February 15, 2019 admin Bot, email, emotet, gandcrab, malware, ransomware, spam

Credit to Author: Bajrang Mane| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:03:57 +0000

Emotet Known for constantly changing its payload and infection vectors like spam mail, Malicious Doc and even Malicious JS files. It compromised a very high number of websites on the internet. Emotet malware campaign has existed since 2014. It comes frequently in intervals with different techniques and variants to deliver malware…

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Avzhan DDoS bot dropped by Chinese drive-by attack

February 23, 2018 admin avzhan, Bot, Botnet, ddos, drive-by attack, exploit kit, malware, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: hasherezade| Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:00:00 +0000

The Avzhan DDoS bot is back in the wild again, this time being dropped by a Chinese drive-by attack. In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into its functionality and compare the sample we captured with the one described in the past.

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Drive-by cryptomining campaign targets millions of Android users

February 12, 2018 admin Android, Bot, CAPTCHA, coinhive, crypto mining, cryptomining, drive-by, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:00:24 +0000

Android users have been exposed to drive-by cryptomining in one of the largest campaigns that we have detected so far.

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Tags: Android Bot CAPTCHA coinhive crypto mining cryptomining drive-by

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Microsoft teams up with law enforcement and other partners to disrupt Gamarue (Andromeda)

January 16, 2018 admin Andromeda, anti-virus software, antimalware, Antivirus, antivirus software, Bot, Botnet, botnet takedown, cybersecurity, Digital Crimes Unit, Gamarue, malware research, research, Security Intelligence, Security Response, Windows 10, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Defender ATP, Windows Defender AV

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 23:06:44 +0000

Today, with help from Microsoft security researchers, law enforcement agencies around the globe, in cooperation with Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), announced the disruption of Gamarue, a widely distributed malware that has been used in networks of infected computers collectively called the Andromeda botnet. The disruption is the culmination of a journey that started in

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More trouble in Google Play land

October 20, 2017 admin Android/Backdoor.Clientor.fun, Bot, Botnet, cybercrime, Google Play, Mobile, sockbot

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:41:36 +0000

After our mobile security experts repeatedly discovered adware on several apps on the Google Play store, our friends at Symantec have unearthed at least eight malicious apps that are found capable of adding affected mobile devices to a botnet.

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Botnets – the malware that makes you part of the problem [PODCAST]

June 23, 2017 admin Bot, Botnet, malware, podcasts, Security, Security SOS, zombie

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:30:12 +0000

Learn from Fraser Howard, one of the world’s leading anti-malware researchers, how to dezombify your world.<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=40249&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/eDoXCrv4BPE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>