Following the LNK metadata trail

While tracking some prevalent commodity malware threat actors, Talos observed the popularization of malicious LNK files as their initial access method to download and execute payloads. A closer look at the LNK files illustrates how their metadata could be used to identify and track new campaigns.

HTML smugglers turn to SVG images

* HTML smuggling is a technique attackers use to hide an encoded malicious script within an HTML email attachment or webpage. * Once a victim receives the email and opens the attachment, their browser decodes and runs the script, which then assembles a malicious payload directl

What Talos Incident Response learned from a recent Qakbot attack hijacking old email threads

By Nate Pors and Terryn Valikodath. Executive summary * In a recent malspam campaign delivering the Qakbot banking trojan, Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) observed the adversary using aggregated, old email threads from multiple organizations that we assess were likely ha

Threat Source (May 2, 2019)

Qakbot levels up with new obfuscation techniques

Executive summary Qakbot, also known as Qbot, is a well-documented banking trojan that has been around since 2008. Recent Qakbot campaigns, however, are utilizing an updated persistence mechanism that can make it harder for users to detect and remove the trojan. Qakbot is known

Research Spotlight: The Resurgence of Qbot

The post was authored by Ben Baker. Qbot, AKA Qakbot, has been around for since at least 2008, but it recently experienced a large surge in development and deployments. Qbot primarily targets sensitive information like banking credentials. Here we are unveiling recent changes to