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As tax deadlines approach, Emotet malware disguises itself in an IRS email

Security researchers have warned that they have seen a number of malicious email campaigns which pose as communications from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The post As tax deadlines approach, Emotet malware ...
Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part II: The Office

Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part II: The Office

Earlier this week, a Ukrainian security researcher leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat logs from Conti, one of the more rapacious and ruthless ransomware gangs in operation today. Tuesday’s story ...
Profiling the Emotet Botnet C&C Infrastructure - An OSINT Analysis

Profiling the Emotet Botnet C&C Infrastructure – An OSINT Analysis

Dear blog readers,I've decided to share a recently obtained Emotet botnet C&C server IPs for the purpose of empowering everyone with the necessary technical information on their way to track down and ...
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Nuspire Report Confirms Massive Spike in Ransomware Attacks

| | Darkside, Emotet, patches, Ransomware
Nuspire, a provider of managed security services, published a report today that found a 55,239% increase in ransomware activity a few weeks prior to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack conducted by DarkSide ...
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Police seize DoubleVPN data, servers, and domain

DoubleVPN, a VPN service that promised to double- and triple-encrypt web activity, was seized after allegedly being favored for cybercrime. Categories: Cybercrime Tags: Clopdoublevpnemoteteurojusteuropolvpn (Read more...) The post Police seize DoubleVPN data, ...
Introducing RDP Inferences

Introducing RDP Inferences

By Anthony Kasza, Technical Director, Corelight Corelight recently released a new package, focused on RDP inferences, as part of our Encrypted Traffic Collection. This package runs on Corelight Sensors and provides network ...
What Will Take Emotet's Place?

What Will Take Emotet’s Place?

Emotet’s seven-year reign of terror will come to an end Sunday, April 25, 2021 – at least in theory, when law enforcement completes a scheduled mass uninstallation of its infrastructure. A ‘scheduled ...
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Emotet Takedown: Time to Celebrate?

At the end of January 2021, Emotet, “the world’s most dangerous malware,” was taken down by law enforcement following an extensive effort by a global coalition of agencies across Europe and the ...
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Cyber Security Roundup for February 2021

Cyber Security Roundup for February 2021

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, January 2021.Throughout January further details about the scale and sophistication ...
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This is HUGE: Cops Nuke Emotet Crimeware C2

Police from eight countries have shut down all three of the Emotet malware’s “epoch” C2 server clusters. Incredible ...
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