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Digital Extortion: A Forward-looking View

Posted on:January 30, 2018 at 5:02 am
Posted in:Malware, Ransomware
Author:
David Sancho (Senior Threat Researcher)

In 2017, we saw digital extortion increasingly become cybercriminals’ first and foremost money-making modus operandi. It’s mostly due to ransomware — cybercriminals’ currently most popular weapon of choice, helping them in extorting cash from users all over the world and in hitting big businesses and organizations.

By infecting business-critical systems through their shotgun-style ransomware attacks and thus crippling enterprise day-to-day operations, cybercriminals managed to force big companies to bend to their will. Digital extortion has become the most successful moneymaking venture for cybercriminals, and the most effective in terms of the scale of their victims. Big or small, everyone gets hit, and everyone has to pay.

Posted on:January 24, 2018 at 5:56 am
Posted in:Malware, Targeted Attacks
Author:
Trend Micro

We analyzed a new RATANKBA variant (BKDR_RATANKBA.ZAEL-A) that uses a PowerShell script instead of its more traditional PE executable form. In this entry, we provide in-depth analysis of the malware, as well as a detailed examination of its remote controller.

Posted on:January 15, 2018 at 4:31 pm
Posted in:Malware
Author:
Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Research Team

On January 15, Goncalo Esteves from Essex, UK plead guilty on 3 charges of computer offenses under UK law:

2 charges against Section 3A of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (Making/adapting/supplying an article intended for use/to assist in commission of section 1 or 3 Computer Misuse offense)
1 charge against Section 327(1) and Section 334 Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Concealing/disguising/converting/transferring/removing criminal property)

This marks the result of a collaborative investigation that Trend Micro and the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the United Kingdom initiated back in 2015, when the two organizations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together in the fight against cybercrime. This collaboration is not restricted to this case alone, with Trend Micro actively continuing to assist the UK, as well as other international law enforcement partners, in their fight against cybercrime.

Posted on:January 15, 2018 at 8:00 am
Posted in:Malware
Author:
Trend Micro

We came across a new variant of the disk-wiping KillDisk targeting financial organizations in Latin America. Trend Micro detects it as TROJ_KILLDISK.IUB. Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ proactively blocks any intrusions or attacks associated with this threat. Initial analysis (which is still ongoing) reveals that it may be a component of another payload, or part of a bigger attack. We are still analyzing this new KillDisk variant and we will update this post as we uncover more details about this threat.

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