Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 19, 2020)

Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 19, 2020)


Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.



Good afternoon, Talos readers.  As 2020 (finally...or already...I can’t decide which) comes to an end, we’re going to start doing a look back at the year that was in malware. And although Emotet has been around long before this year, 2020 was particularly peculiar for the botnet because it went virtually dormant over the summer before coming back over the few months. After we obtained ownership of several C2 domains that are part of Emotet, we looked at this threat’s trends and recent changes. 

Cyber security week in review



U.S. President Donald Trump fired the U.S.’s top cyber security official, Chris Krebs, this week. Trump became critical of Krebs after he refuted claims of widespread voter fraud during this month’s presidential election. 
Schools around the world are already struggling to stay open for hybrid learning given the ongoing pandemic. But now more of them are also having to fend off cyber attacks that disrupt online learning. 
State-sponsored threat actors continue to target COVID-19 vaccine research. Microsoft researchers say they’ve recently seen attacks going after vaccine producers in Canada, France, India, South Korea and the U.S. 
As more local, state and national governments roll out their own COVID-19 contact-tracing apps, researchers are finding large variations in what data is kept ..

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