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Check Point reports that it has discovered a new and dangerous version of the Qbot Trojan, which steals other people’s emails from Outlook and then uses them to create more convincing phishing emails. Let me remind you that for the first time Qbot (aka QuakBot, QakBot and Pinkslipbot) was discovered …

Earlier this month, the Emotet botnet, which has shown no signs of life since February 2020, returned to service with a new spam campaign. Researchers have now reported that Emotet steals attachments from victims’ emails for greater credibility in subsequent social engineering attacks. After observing the malware, cybersecurity specialists reported …

Earlier this month, the Emotet botnet, which has shown no signs of life since February 2020, returned to service with a new spam campaign. However, not everything went smoothly with the cybercriminals – some unknown hackers interfere with the work of the Emotet botnet by replacing the malware with gif …

Recently we wrote that the Emotet botnet, which had not shown “signs of life” since February 2020, has returned to work with a new spam campaign. Now it distributes information about QakBot banker. Watching the newly revived malware, cybersecurity experts report that the botnet has changed its core load and …

One of the most active botnets of 2019, Emotet, did not show almost any “signs of life” since February this year. Recently Emotet resumed activity and returned to service with a new spam campaign. Check Point researchers noted that Emotet was the most active organization in October 2019, but at …

Check Point experts summed up the results of October 2019. According to them, cryptocurrency miners for the first time in two years have lost their leadership in the ranking of the most active malware. In general, the influence of mining malware decreased by almost 70% during 2019. Researchers note that …

Pilz, one of the largest manufacturers of industrial automation products, was forced to shut down most of its systems. BitPaymer ransomware attack blocked Pilz. The incident affected all Pilz sites in 76 countries around the world that lost contact with the main network for more than a week. “The problems …

Analysts from the nonprofit organization Spamhaus continue to observe an increase in the number of domain names used by attackers to control botnets. Spamhaus released botnet statistics for Q3 2019. Between July and September, activists recorded an average of 1,300 new C&C servers per month; in the first half of …

Europol experts presented the results of a study of relevant cyberthreats: in fact, they named the main cyberthreats of 2019. According to analysts, the greatest danger today is the activity of cryptographers and malware, which hunt for a variety of users’ data. According to Europol researchers, new threats do not …