Month: December 2019

Shotgun Wedding

An email caught my eye this morning. Not because of a unique social engineering theme or a new delivery technique, but because of the sheer number of attachments, a shotgun approach to malware delivery. There were 3 RTF files with spoofed .doc and docx.doc extensions, an ARJ archive containing an …

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The Emotet botnet began sending holiday themed emails today. While this isn’t necessarily new to them, it does go to show that they are constantly experimenting with relevant themes along with their reply-chain style emails. Below are a few examples of emails that we saw cross our wires today:

Holiday
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Ran across this brand new angle on sextortion today. Instead of looking for creds to use for authenticity in a sexotortion email, this actor has decided to send a very small and generic email with a link to a blog site. Reviewing the site leads to what amounts to a …

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The complexities of intelligence (late night ramblings of a madman)

I’m sure I’m not the only one who knows of someone who, as a young child, had a dog.  They liked dogs, so they learned dogs.  Dogs have four legs, and they stand on them.  One day, it became apparent …

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