Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week.
As long as COVID-19 is in the headlines (which is going to be a long time) actors are going to try and capitalize. We fully expect to see a rise in spam that’s now related to the economic assistance package passed by the U.S. government.
In non-virus-related news, we also have a new overview of the Trickbot banking trojan. This family has been around for a while, but we’ve recently seen a spike in distribution related to the aforementioned COVID-19 campaigns. What does Trickbot look like? And what are some best practices to defend against it? We run through all that here.
And, as always, we have the latest Threat Roundup where we go through the top threats we saw — and blocked — over the past week.
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Event: “Everyone's Advanced Now: The evolution of actors on the threat landscape” at Interop Tokyo 2020Location: Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, JapanDate: June 10 - 12Speakers: Nick BiasiniSynopsis: In the past, there were two clear classes of adversary an enterprise would face: sophisticated and basic. These basic threats were commodity infections that would require simple triage and remediation. Today, these commodity infections can quickly turn into enterprise-crippling ransomware attacks, costing organizations millions of dollars to recover. Now more tha ..
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