The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Weekly Threat Briefing discuss the following topics: APT, Data breach, Data leak, Malspam, Phishing, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to the Weekly Threat Briefing 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 Botnet Returns After a Five-month Absence
(published: July 17, 2020)
The most prolific and sophisticated malware botnet group, Emotet, has resumed campaigns after not being active for five months. The current spam campaigns that started July 17th, 2020, have resulted in at least 80,000 distributed emails to date. These emails contain either a Word doc containing a malicious macro or a malicious URL to download the maldoc. The current campaign appears to be largely targeting the US and UK, and the lures are in the English language. As the Emotet gang has been known to work with ransomware groups, security professionals tend to consider Emotet with the same urgency.Recommendation: It is important for businesses and individuals to educate themselves on email security to avoid falling for spam and phishing campaigns. In addition to education, businesses should have spam and malware protections around email, as well as defense in depth in general.Tags: Email, Emotet, Malicious Macros, Spam
What To Expect When You’re Electing: Talos’ 2020 Election Security Primer
(published: July 16, 2020)
Security researchers with Cisco's Talos have concluded four year ..
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