One of the most common and pervasive threats for businesses today is Emotet, a banking Trojan turned downloader that has been on our list of top 10 detections for many months in a row. Emotet, which Malwarebytes detects as Trojan.Emotet, has been leveled at consumers and organizations across the globe, fooling users into infecting endpoints through phishing emails, and then spreading laterally … [Read more...]
March 14, 2019
December 14, 2018
How threat actors are using SMB vulnerabilities
Some of the most devastating ransomware and Trojan malware variants depend on vulnerabilities in the Windows Server Message Block (SMB) to propagate through an organization’s network. Windows SMB is a protocol used by PCs for file and printer sharing, as well as for access to remote services. A patch was released by Microsoft for SMB vulnerabilities in March 2017, but many organizations and home … [Read more...]
December 5, 2018
New ‘Under the Radar’ report examines modern threats and future technologies
As if you haven’t heard it enough from us, the threat landscape is changing. It’s always changing, and usually not for the better. The new malware we see being developed and deployed in the wild have features and techniques that allow them to go beyond what they were originally able to do, either for the purpose of additional infection or evasion of detection. To that end, we decided … [Read more...]
November 27, 2018
Malwarebytes’ 2019 security predictions
Every year, we at Malwarebytes Labs like to stare into our crystal ball and foretell the future of malware. Okay, maybe we don’t have a crystal ball, but we do have years and years of experience in observing trends and sensing shifts in patterns. When it comes to security, though, we can only know so much. For example, we guarantee there’ll be some kind of development that we had zero … [Read more...]
September 22, 2018
Emotet on the rise with heavy spam campaign
The threat landscape is changing once again, now that the ocean of cryptocurrency miners has shrunk to a small lake. Over the last couple months, we’ve seen cybercriminals lean back on tried and true methods of financial theft and extortion, with the rise of a familiar Banking Trojan: Emotet. However, over the last few days, we’ve noticed a large increase in malicious spam spreading … [Read more...]
