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Babuk – the allegedly Russian-speaking ransomware gang targeting D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department – posted on the dark web a message that it was shutting down, only to reverse course and pull the message from the site. (Alex Smith/CC0 1.0) Babuk – the allegedly Russian-speaking ransomware gang targeting D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department – posted on the dark web a message that it was shutting down, only to reverse course and pull the message from the site. The D.C. Police Department case broke earlier this week, with reports that Babuk had infiltrated the dep...

'); //]]>//--> 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 pos...

The move has similarities to the FBI's cleaning-up of infected Microsoft Exchange Server deployments this month, a move that prompted considerable debate when we revealed the same thing could be lawfully done in the UK. Emotet was particularly nasty in that it spread via malicious attachments in spam emails, and once installed, could bring in additional malware: infected machines were rented out to crooks to install things like ransomware and code that drained victims' online bank accounts. Computer security biz Digital Shadows highlighted the extent of the Emotet epidemic, and said its remov...

BankInfoSecurity May 20, 2021 Compliance @prajeetspeaks) • April 26, 2021     Get Permission An "update" pushed out earlier this year by law enforcement agencies, including Europol, on Sunday began erasing Emotet malware from infected devices worldwide, according to a blog posting from Malwarebytes. The “update” file - a customized DLL file called EmotetLoader.dllsent - was activated on infected devices to erase the malware, Malwarebytes reports. Europol has not issued an announcement on the action and did n...

Attackers Heavily Targeting VPN Vulnerabilities Threat actors like attacking the technology because they provide a convenient entry point to enterprise networks. Attacks on virtual private networks, like those this week targeting a trio of known vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure appliances, have intensified in recent months along with the increase in remote and hybrid work environments since the outbreak of COVID-19. The trend requires organizations to patch VPN and other externally facing devices with the highest priority, says a new report from Digital Shadows. The report, based on an analys...