IT Sec News updates – Malware Attacks

Department of Justice

Qakbot Malware Infected More Than 700,000 Victim Computers, Facilitated Ransomware Deployments, and Caused Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in …

AP News

1 of 4 |. U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada announces in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 the multinational take down operation of Qakbot malware.

Bleeping Computer

A new version of the DreamBus botnet malware exploits a critical-severity remote code execution vulnerability in RocketMQ servers to infect …

El Paso Inc.

U.S. officials say the FBI and its partners in Europe infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network that was used for more than 15 …

Bleeping Computer

However, over time, the malware evolved into a malware delivery service utilized by other threat actors to gain initial access to networks for …

Los Angeles Times

The agencies infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network that was used for more than 15 years to commit crippling ransomware attacks …

VOA News

Qakbot, also known as Qbot, was a sophisticated botnet and malware that infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world, …

CBS News

He would not say where administrators of the malware, which could be marshaled into a botnet of zombie computers, were located. Cybersecurity …

Infosecurity Magazine

Cybersecurity provider ReliaQuest observed that cyber-criminals used seven different malware loaders to deploy their intrusion campaigns in the …

Forbes

The malware—known as Qakbot—has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in losses in the U.S. and abroad since 2008.