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Picus Labs has updated the Picus Threat Library with new attack methods for Krachulka, Lokorrito, Zumanek Trojans that are targeting banks in Brazil, Mexico, and Spain. In this blog, techniques used by these malware families will be explored. Banking trojans have a significant role in the cybercrime scene in Latin America. According to Eset, 11 different malware families that target banks in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries share TTPs, indicating that threat actors are cooperating on some level. For example, the same or similar custom encryption schemes are used by these malware famil...

Apr 15, 2021 There was an average 648 threats per minute in Q4, an increase of 60 threats per minute (10%) over Q3, according to the McAfee Threats Report: April 2021. The two quarters also saw Covid-19-related cyber-attack detections increase by 240% in Q3 and 114% in Q4, while Powershell threats again surged 208% due to continued increases in Donoff malware activity. “The world – and enterprises – adjusted amidst pandemic restrictions and sustained remote work challenges, while security threats continued to evolve in complexity and increase in volume,” says Raj Samani, McAfee fellow...

COVID-19 themed cyber-attacks increased by 114% in Q4 2020 compared to Q3, according to data from the McAfee Threats Report: April 2021. This followed rises of 605% and 240% in Q2 and Q3 2020 respectively, demonstrating that threat actors have continued to leverage the pandemic to target organizations and individuals. The study, which looked at the evolving threat landscape in the final quarter of 2020, found there was a 10% overall rise in malware detections in Q4 compared to Q3, reaching an average of 648 threats per minute. There was a particularly large surge in Powershell threats in Q4...