Anomali Cyber Watch: APT, Emotet, Iran, RedCurl and More

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Data breach, Data leak, Malspam, Phishing, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity.



Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed.



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Emotet malware is back and rebuilding its botnet via TrickBot



(published: November 15, 2021)



After Europol enforcement executed a takeover of the Emotet infrastructure in April 2021 and German law enforcement used this infrastructure to load a module triggering an uninstall of existing Emotet installs, new Emotet installs have been detected via initial infections with TrickBot. These campaigns and infrastructure appear to be rapidly proliferating. Once infected with Emotet, in addition to leveraging the infected device to send malspam, additional malware can be downloaded and installed on the victim device for various purposes, including ransomware. Researchers currently have not seen any spamming activity or any known malicious documents dropping Emotet malware besides from TrickBot. It is possible that Emotet is using Trickbot to rebuild its infrastructure and steal email chains it will use in future spam attacks.Analyst Comment: Phishing continues to be a preferred method for initial infection by many actors and malware families. End users should be cautious with email attachments and links, and organizations should have robust endpoint protections that are regularly updated.



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