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Threat actors are leveraging LinkedIn profiles to target victims with fake job offers that lead to the installation of a backdoor, warns a Canadian managed security services provider. Victims clicking on the link to the supposed job offer could end up installing a backdoor known as “more_eggs,” which could give a hacker remote control over the victim’s computer, allowing them to send, receive, launch and delete files, said Waterloo, Ont.-based eSentire in a blog released this morning. The...

Emotet Campaign Restarts After Seven-Week Hiatus Multiple security researchers note the return of an email campaign attempting to spread the malware, which is often used to drop the Ryuk ransomware and Trickbot banking Trojan. In October, three surges of spam laden with the Emotet downloader worked to spread the malware to vulnerable users systems, starting a sequence that often results in a Ryuk ransomware infection or attempts to steal bank account credentials via the Trickbot banking Trojan....

'We recorded hundreds of thousands of encounters of the Adrozek malware across the globe, with heavy concentration in Europe and in South Asia and Southeast Asia,' Microsoft says.