Overview of threats in Italy in January
In January, the joint actions of several police from several countries who took coordinated action and broke up the EMOTET BotNet caused a stir. In January, BotNet had carried more than 48 Malspam campaigns targeting Italy.
On January 27, Europol reports that it officially dismantled the Emotet Botnet through Operation Ladybird, which involved authorities from: Netherlands, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Lithuania and Ukraine.
January saw campaigns by AgentTesla, LokiBot and other generic Password Stealers in action. Trojan-Banker UrSnif continued its usual spreading activities through various Malspam campaigns.
There was a slight decline in ransomware attacks, many of them carried via RDP. Among them we can count Phobos and Makop.
Noteworthy the excellent technical analysis of viperSoftx RAT.
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