Qbot
U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections
The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved ...
NetworkMiner 2.7.3 Released
NetworkMiner now extracts meterpreter payloads from reverse shells and performs offline lookups of JA3 hashes and TLS certificates. Our commercial tool, NetworkMiner Professional, additionally comes with a packet carver that extracts network ...
The Issue & Impact of Malspam in the U.S. Elections
Malspam campaigns and their related botnets were a potential major threat for the election process in the United States this year. The post The Issue & Impact of Malspam in the U.S ...
Email Attacks Using Fear of Election Interference to Spread QBot
Digital attackers launched a malicious email campaign that used fear of election interference in order to spread the QBot trojan. On November 4, Malwarebytes came across an attack email. This message arrived ...
Fake Windows Defender Antivirus Theme Used to Spread QBot
Digital attackers incorporated a fake Windows Defender Antivirus theme into a malicious document in order to distribute QBot malware. According to Bleeping Computer, the QBot gang began using a new template for ...
New Valak Variant Makes “Most Wanted Malware” List for First Time
An updated variant of the Valak malware family earned a place on a security firm’s “most wanted malware” list for the first time. Check Point revealed that an updated version of Valak ...
Fake WhatsApp on Google Play Shows How Easy Users Can Be Tricked
Google removed a rogue version of the WhatsApp Messenger application from Google Play that had been installed by more than 1 million people. A subsequent search by users and researchers revealed that ...
