Welcome to this past week’s news, and boy has it been interesting. I’m probably behind, and some of this I’ve not yet read, especially the Trend Micro stuff, but I hope that it may be of interest to you.
Emotet and Net Walker have taken hits, and multiple articles cover this. As mentioned in notations from a prior podcast, Emotet looks to be trying to rebuild, but the fact that Netwalker and Trick Bot are mentioned in the same article, makes this interesting.
As we’re learning via podcasts and articles, these things are beginning stages of more sophistocated attacks.
The article Emotet, NetWalker and TrickBot have taken big blows, but will it be enough? is written by Cyber Scoop’s Tim Starks. The good news with all of this is that the Gangs behind these attacks are starting to be broken up by law enforcement, so they’re having a hard time. The problem though, is that Emotet is not what it once was, its still known as the banking trojan, but it isn’t used that way anymnore. Read more about these in this article.
The other two articles talking about Emotet are:
- International Action Targets Emotet Crimeware
- Emotet, NetWalker and TrickBot have taken big blows, but will it be enough?
The second article which poses a question is a great question and it was also written by Mr. Starks at Cyberscoop. All have different viewpoints, but they also may say some of the same thing, depending on viewpoint. What do you think of these stories?
This week in security news, news ending January 29th has some stuff written by Trend Micro that I’ve not yet read. It does seem interesting to say the least. One article which I may have to read talks about parents saying yes to screentime during the pandemic. I don’t know what to think about this one, its a mixed bag.
One of the articles in here talks about the Sodinokibi attack. Security Now talked about this as it was known as Ransomware as a Service as well as it being a single entity that made tons of money. It was also covered when the operators said they were going to call it quits, but yet, they changed it to RAS and I guess they haven’t stopped.
Also in this news digest, another article dealing with Emotet. Thats great to see multiple sources covering this and I hope we see more.
Use Office365? Better look for a phishing attack that might end up targint C-suite folks you may know.
If Phishing wasn’t a problem now, CEOs will be a problem if they aren’t careful, accoring to an article in this digest.
There’s plenty more, This Week in Security News – Jan. 29, 2021 is the article by Trend Micro. Guess you better check it out.
Security Now goes in to a big ordeal on Solar Winds updates, long story short, they started setting up shop since February 2020. An article entitled Symantec connects another hacking tool to SolarWinds campaign is a little out dated but there’s more updates coming out all the time from various podcasts. If you haven’t read this, you should, and then start to see what updates there are.
If we haven’t had enough with the riots, I didn’t cover this in prior news but it seems like Russia still can’t keep its nose clean in Russia, Iran and China exploit Capitol Hill riot to push information operations, US intel concludes written by Sean Lyngaas. While I read it some time ago, you’ll see that this will probably not change, and I’m not going to keep this around for news notes for the podcast.
I’ve got more dating back to November, got to figure out whether I want to cover them or get rid of them, but this will be enough for today. Found something you want me to read? Get in touch!
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