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//]]>// >By John P. Mello Jr.
Apr 27, 2021 4:00 AM PT
The notorious Emotet botnet software began uninstalling itself from some one million computers Sunday.
According to SecurityWeek, the uninstall command was part of an update sent to the infected computers by law enforcement servers in the Netherlands after Emotet s infrastructure was compromised in January during a multinational operation mounted by eight nations.
The poisoned upgrade cleans the Windows registry key that enables the botnet s modules to run automatically, as well as stop and delete associated services. The threat posed by Emotet was already neutralized by the takeover of its entire network infrastructure by law enforcement last January, explained Jean-Ian Boutin, head of threat research at Eset, an information technology security company based in Bratislava in the Slovak Republic.
22% of PC users still use Windows 7, which Microsoft stopped supporting in January 2020. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Researchers on Monday reported that 22% of PC users still use Windows 7, which Microsoft stopped supporting in January 2020.
In a company release, Kaspersky said the study was based on anonymized OS metadata provided by consenting Kaspersky Security Network users.
âA trusted operating system may seem fine on the surface, but if the vendor no longer supports it with important updates to the software, the system becomes more susceptible to attacks,â Kaspersky said. âWhen operating systems reach end-of-life, vulnerabilities will remain on the system without patch updates to resolve issues, providing cyber attackers with potential ways to gain access.â
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The notorious cybercrime gang could make out whether or not Apple pays the $50 million ransom by May 1 as demanded.
The REvil ransomware gang is known for audacious attacks on the world’s biggest organizations, and its demands for astronomical ransoms to match. But the gang’s latest squeeze on Apple just hours before its splashy new product launch was a bold move, even for the notorious ransomware-as-a-service gang.
The original attack was launched against Quanta, a Global Fortune 500 manufacturer of electronics, which claims Apple among its customers. The Taiwanese-based company was contracted to assemble Apple products, including Apple Watch, Apple Macbook Air and Pro, and ThinkPad, from an Apple-provided set of design schematics.