Cerber Version 6 Shows How Far the Ransomware Has Come (and How Far it’ll Go)
Additional analysis/insights by Alfredo Oliveira A little over a year after its first variants were found in the wild, Cerber (Detected by Trend Micro as RANSOM_CERBER family) now has the reputation for being the most prolific family of ransomware in the threat landscape. Since it first emerged in Russian underground marketplaces in March, 2016, Cerber has […] more…IT threat evolution Q1 2021
Targeted attacks Putting the ‘A’ into APT In December, SolarWinds, a well-known IT managed services provider, fell victim to a sophisticated supply-chain attack. The company’s Orion IT, a solution for monitoring and managing customers’ IT infrastructure, was compromised by threat actors. This resulted in the deployment of a custom backdoor, named Sunburst, on the networks […] more…IT threat evolution Q2 2018
Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Operation Parliament In April, we reported the workings of Operation Parliament, a cyber-espionage campaign aimed at high-profile legislative, executive and judicial organizations around the world – with its main focus in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, especially Palestine. The attacks, which started early in 2017, target parliaments, […] more…McAfee Discovers Pinkslipbot Exploiting Infected Machines as Control Servers; Releases Free Tool to Detect, Disable Trojan
McAfee Labs has discovered that banking malware Pinkslipbot (also known as QakBot/QBot) has used infected machines as control servers since April 2016, even after its capability to steal personal and financial data from the infected machine has been removed by a security product. These include home users whose computers are usually behind a network address […] more…More information
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