Online Learning Update

March 27, 2021

This trojan malware is now your biggest security headache

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:04 am

Danny Palmer, ZD Net

Trickbot malware has risen to fill the gap left by the takedown of the Emotet botnet, with a higher number of criminals shifting towards it to distribute malware attacks. Emotet was the world’s most prolific and dangerous malware botnet before it was disrupted by an international law enforcement operation in January this year. What initially emerged as a banking trojan in 2014 went on to become much more, establishing backdoors on compromised Windows machines which were leased out to other cyber-criminal groups to conduct their own malware or ransomware campaigns.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-trojan-malware-is-now-your-biggest-security-headache/

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