EMOTET

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2018
A crippling ransomware attack hit a water utility in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence

A water utility in the US state of North Carolina suffered a severe ransomware attack in the week after Hurricane Florence hit the East Coast of the U.S. According to the Onslow Water and Sewer Authority (aka ONWASA) some internal systems were infected with the Emotet malware, but the regular water service was not impacted. According to ONWASA, […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2017
A new EMOTET Trojan variant improves evasion techniques

Security experts at Trend Micro had recently observed a new variant of the EMOTET banking Trojan that implements new evasion features. EMOTET, aka Geodo, is linked to the dreaded Dridex and Feodo (Cridex, Bugat)  malware families. In past campaigns, EMOTET was used by crooks to steal banking credentials and as a malicious payload downloader. The experts observed […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 14, 2017
IcedID, a new sophisticated banking Trojan doesn’t borrow code from other banking malware

Researchers at IBM have spotted a new banking malware dubbed IcedID has capabilities similar to other financial threats like Gozi, Zeus, and Dridex. Malware researchers at IBM X-Force have spotted a new strain of banking malware dubbed IcedID has capabilities similar to other financial threats like Gozi, Zeus, and Dridex. IcedID does not borrow code from other banking malware, but it […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2015
New Emotet spam campaign targets German users

Security experts at Microsoft detected a new variant in the Win32/Emotet family which is targeting German users with a new spam email campaign. Researchers from Microsoft have uncovered a new criminal campaign is targeting German users with a new variant of a sophisticated banking malware, Trojan:Win32/Emotet.C. The attackers are running Spam email campaign in Germany to serve a […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 28, 2014
EMOTET the banking malware which uses network sniffing

Security Experts at Trend Micro have detected a new banking malware, dubbed EMOTET, which uses also network sniffing capabilities to target bank customers. The number of malware families designed to hit the banking industry is in constant growth, in this first part of the year the number of malicious code used by cyber criminals for […]