Trickbot was discovered in 2016 as a banking trojan but with time it was updated to ransomware botnet.
Microsoft, with the help of other cybersecurity and tech companies, has disrupted Trickbot, one of the most sophisticated and notorious malware botnets.
First discovered in August 2016 as a banking trojan; Trickbot stole login credentials from targeted computers and used compromised accounts to spread malicious emails to unsuspecting users.
In 2017 and 2018, Trickbot was updated to hijack cryptocurrency transactions. Its most recent victim was the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in which attackers targeted users with a phishing scam loaded with malware to steal email and passwords.
Screenshot of a fake email that was used in infecting targets with Trickbot botnet.
In a blog post, Tom Burt – Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust said that the end of the Trickbot botnet came after a court order and with the help of telecom and cybersecurity companies around the world. These included ESET, Symantec, a division of Broadcom, NTT, cyber security companies dismantle trickbot ransomware botnet
