Kronos
Ransomware Actors Attack Most Often on Fridays
Criminals are detonating ransomware at targeted organizations seven days a week, leaving enterprises with essentially no time to shore up their security operations. But a recent study revealed that Friday was the ...
Kronos Sends Clients Elsewhere After Ransomware Attack
There’s no good time for a ransomware attack, but in the midst of the holiday season when workers depend even more than usual on a steady paycheck, an attack on an HR ...
MalwareTech, WannaCry and Kronos – Understanding the Connections
As Marcus Hutchins was on his way home to the UK after attending Def Con and Black Hat in Las Vegas, NV, the FBI arrested him. This event sparked immediate internet outcry, ...
Process Doppelgänging meets Process Hollowing in Osiris dropper
Process doppleganging, a rare technique of impersonating a process, was discovered last year, but hasn't been seen much in the wild since. It was an interesting surprise, then, to discover its use ...
Kronos Malware Returns With New Attack Campaigns, Updates
The Kronos banking trojan has returned with several new attack campaigns as well as a few updates. In April 2018, researchers at Proofpoint detected a new variant of the malware. It’s the ...
Bot Roundup: Avalanche, Kronos, NanoCore
It's been a busy few weeks in cybercrime news, justifying updates to a couple of cases we've been following closely at KrebsOnSecurity. In Ukraine, the alleged ringleader of the Avalanche malware spam ...
