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Qakbot Botnet Sprouts Fangs, Injects Malware into Email Threads

10

Mar

2022

The Qakbot botnet is getting more dangerous, sinking its fangs into email threads and injecting malicious modules to pump up the core botnet’s powers. On Thursday, Sophos published a deep dive into the botnet, describing how researchers have recently seen it spreading through email thread hijacking – an attack in which malware operators malspam replies […]

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Ukrainian CERT Warns Citizens of Phishing Attacks Using Compromised Accounts

07

Mar

2022

Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warned of new phishing attacks aimed at its citizens by leveraging compromised email accounts belonging to three different Indian entities with the goal of compromising their inboxes and stealing sensitive information. The agency cautioned that the emails arrive with the subject line “Увага” (meaning “Attention”) and claim to be […]

Category Cyber-crime Phishing Written by Thehackernews 0 Comments

TrickBot Malware Gang Upgrades its AnchorDNS Backdoor to AnchorMail

01

Mar

2022

Even as the TrickBot infrastructure closed shop, the operators of the malware are continuing to refine and retool their arsenal to carry out attacks that culminated in the deployment of Conti ransomware. IBM Security X-Force, which discovered the revamped version of the criminal gang’s AnchorDNS backdoor, dubbed the new, upgraded variant AnchorMail. AnchorMail “uses an […]

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