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Zeus Sphinx Back in Business: Some Core Modifications Arise

May 11, 2020 jbiscaya 2 Views 0 Comments Banking Malware, banking trojan, botnet, Command-and-Control (C&C), Cybercrime, IBM X-Force Exchange, IBM X-Force Research, Indicator of Compromise (IoC), Malware, Online Banking, Online Fraud, Threat Intelligence, Trojan, X-Force, Zeus, zeus sphinx

The Zeus Sphinx banking Trojan is financial malware that was built upon the existing and leaked codebase of the forefather

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TrickBot Campaigns Targeting Users via Department of Labor FMLA Spam

April 30, 2020 jbiscaya 7 Views 0 Comments banking trojan, Cybercrime, Fraud, IBM X-Force Exchange, macros, Malware, Malware analysis, Social Engineering, Spam, Spam Emails, spoofing, Threat Intelligence, TrickBot, Trojan, X-Force

IBM X-Force monitors billions of spam emails a year, mapping trending, malicious campaigns and their origins. Recent analysis from our

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SBA Spoofed in COVID-19 Spam to Deliver Remcos RAT

April 27, 2020 jbiscaya 4 Views 0 Comments Credentials Theft, email, Government, IBM X-Force Exchange, IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS), Malware, Malware analysis, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Phishing, Phishing Emails, Remote-Access Trojan (RAT), Social Engineering, Spam, spoofing, Threat Hunting, Threat Intelligence, X-Force

Between late March and mid-April 2020, IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) uncovered a phishing campaign targeting small

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PXJ Ransomware Campaign Identified by X-Force IRIS

March 12, 2020 jbiscaya 5 Views 0 Comments Cryptography, Cybercrime, Encryption, IBM X-Force Exchange, IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS), Incident Response (IR), Indicator of Compromise (IoC), Malware, Malware analysis, Ransomware, Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), Security Trends, Threat Intelligence, X-Force

Ransomware has become one of the most profitable types of malware in the hands of cybercriminals, with reported cybercrime losses

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Cyberthreat Intelligence Tooling — How to Quickly Locate Your Key Indicators

February 21, 2020 jbiscaya 3 Views 0 Comments analysis, Data Exfiltration, IBM X-Force Exchange, Malware, Security Intelligence & Analytics, Threat Detection, Threat Intelligence, Threat Management

Everything you do in threat intelligence is about indicators or patterns. In a binary world, patterns are actually just how

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Emotet Activity Rises as It Uses Coronavirus Scare to Infect Targets in Japan

February 5, 2020 jbiscaya 2 Views 0 Comments banking trojan, Cybercrime, Cybercrime Trends, Cybercriminals, IBM X-Force Exchange, IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS), IBM X-Force Research, Incident Response (IR), Malicious Code, Malware, Malware analysis, Microsoft Office, Spam, Spam Emails, Threat Intelligence, TrickBot, Trojan

IBM X-Force has identified a spam campaign targeting users in Japan that employs the Coronavirus scare as a lure to

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New NetWire RAT Campaigns Use IMG Attachments to Deliver Malware Targeting Enterprise Users

January 21, 2020 jbiscaya 9 Views 0 Comments Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), Banking Malware, Command-and-Control (C&C), Cost of a Data Breach, Cybercrime, Dark Web, email, IBM X-Force Exchange, IBM X-Force Research, Malware, Malware analysis, Phishing, Ransomware, Remote-Access Trojan (RAT), scam, Social Engineering, Threat Hunting, Threat Intelligence, Trojan, X-Force

IBM X-Force researchers have discovered a new campaign targeting organizations with fake business emails that deliver NetWire remote-access Trojan (RAT)

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Enter Dustman: New Wiper Takes After ZeroCleare, Likely Targets Organizations in Region

January 17, 2020 jbiscaya 14 Views 0 Comments Advanced Threats, IBM X-Force Exchange, IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS), IBM X-Force Research, Malware, Malware analysis, research, Threat Intelligence, X-Force

In December 2019, IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) released a report on new malware from the Wiper

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From Mega to Giga: Cross-Version Comparison of Top MegaCortex Modifications

January 8, 2020 jbiscaya 49 Views 0 Comments Advanced Threats, Certificate Authority (CA), Cyberattacks, Encryption, IBM X-Force Exchange, IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS), Indicator of Compromise (IoC), Malware, Malware analysis, Ransomware, Risk Management, targeted attacks, Windows, X-Force

IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) researchers have been responding to and analyzing the MegaCortex ransomware since its

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The Role of Evil Downloaders in the Android Mobile Malware Kill Chain

November 27, 2019 jbiscaya 7 Views 0 Comments Android, Android apps, App Security, Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), Dark Web, Fraud, Fraud Protection, google play, IBM X-Force Exchange, Malware, Malware analysis, Mobile App Security, Mobile Devices, Mobile Fraud, Mobile Malware, Mobile Security, Risk Management, Social Engineering, X-Force

The spread of malware from user PCs to handheld devices such as smartphones has been a gradual process that started

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