TrickBot takes down server infrastructure after months of inactivity

The king of tricks is dead. Long live the new king. Or will it make a comeback? While we already assumed TrickBot was dead in the water, the shutdown of the server infrastructure on February 24, 2022, did not go unnoticed. Is this really the end of one of the most active botnets in the …

Threat spotlight: Conti, the ransomware used in the HSE healthcare attack

On the 14th of May, the Health Service Executive (HSE) , Ireland’’ s openly financed health care system, came down with a Conti ransomware attack, requiring the company to close down more than 80,000 impacted endpoints and plunging them back to the age of pen and paper. This occurred a week after DarkSide , another …