March 10, 2022

Qakbot injects itself into the middle of your conversations

The heavily distributed botnet delivers a wide variety of payloads - and scans your network for weaknesses

Threat Research

December 08, 2020

Egregor ransomware: Maze’s heir apparent

A new variant of the Sekhmet ransomware has stepped into the ransomware-as-a-service game, picking up where Maze left off.

SophosLabs UncutThreat Research

June 29, 2020

Satori IoT botnet author sentenced to 13 months in prison

Kenneth Schuchman, the creator of the massive Satori botnet of enslaved devices, will be spending 13 months behind bars.

Naked Security

December 02, 2019

Emotet’s Central Position in the Malware Ecosystem

SophosLabs UncutThreat Research

September 05, 2019

Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty

He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.

Naked Security

January 25, 2019

Fighting Emotet: lessons from the front line

Emotet is moving, shape-shifting target for admins and their security software. Here's what we've learned from dealing with outbreaks.

Naked Security

June 21, 2017

New malware uses old trick – and is a reminder to disable UPnP

Hijacking UPnP is rare, but it's a straightforward trick that will be copied soon enough

Naked Security