Tag: luca nagy
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VB2019 papers: Emotet and Ryuk
Targeted ransomware has become one of the biggest and most damaging cybercrime trends in recent years. ‘Targeted’ is a bit of a misnomer though: the operators of the ransomware rarely choose the victim organisations. Instead, they have the organisations ‘chosen’ through an infection with another piece of malware that is then used as a foothold…
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VB2019 preview: Exploring Emotet, an elaborate everyday enigma
Active since 2014, initially as a banking trojan, Emotet has been a plague on the Internet in recent years. Emotet’s core strength is its ability to download other malware, thus giving those in control of it remote code execution on infected systems and networks. Emotet has been the initial infection in many high-profile attacks, in…