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BankInfoSecurity Compliance March 29, 2021 Compliance Twitter Part of the malicious domain used in recent Trickbot campaign (Source: Menlo Security) The Trickbot botnet appears to be making a comeback this month with a fresh campaign that is targeting insurance companies and legal firms in North America, according to an analysis published Friday by Menlo Security. While the phishing campaign that started Jan. 12 contains some of the hallmarks of a Trickbot campaign, Vinay Pidathala, director of security research at Menlo Security, says more analysis is needed to fully confirm that that botne...

Geerati / Getty Images Despite the security industry's efforts to disrupt the TrickBot botnet, its operators are trying to revive it with new infection campaigns. The latest one, observed by researchers this month, targeted legal and insurance companies. "In the most recent campaign we observed across our global Menlo Security cloud platform, we noticed the attackers used an interesting lure to get users to click and install the Trickbot malware on the endpoint," security firm Menlo Security said in a report Friday. "This ongoing campaign that we identified exclusively targeted...

 (TechRepublic) Trickbot even became a loader for other forms of malware, with cyber criminals taking advantage of machines already compromised by Trickbot as a means of delivering other malicious payloads, including ransomware. In October last year, a takedown led by Microsoft disrupted the infrastructure behind the Trickbot malware botnet, but now it appears to be coming back to life as researchers at Menlo Security have identified an ongoing malware campaign that has the hallmarks of previous Trickbot activity. These attacks appear to be exclusively targeting legal and insurance companies...

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Law enforcement takes over Emotet, one of the biggest botnets Multi-national cooperation removes this key malware delivery service as a threat, at least temporarily Credit: Dreamstime Law enforcement agencies from several countries collaborated in a joint operation that resulted in taking over the command-and-control infrastructure behind Emotet, one of the world's largest botnets. Whether this disruption to the botnet wi...

BankInfoSecurity Compliance Twitter Today’s hybrid workforce of both remote and in-office employees is the new normal as the world adapts to the COVID-19 pandemic. IT security teams are struggling to support this new global digital workforce that needs reliable, secure, and fast access to the Internet. Cyberattackers are also taking advantage of this new normal, so how do organizations prevent growing threats from web and email vectors? Traditional security strategies of routing Internet traffic through a VPN increase latency, slow performance, and disrupt the user experience. The solution...