![]() This is one of many signs that suggests to us that, faced with its critical infrastructure under repeated attack, Trickbot operators are scrambling to find other ways to stay active.” Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Customer Security & Trust Tom Burt Opens a new window said, “We and others have detected the Trickbot operators attempting to use a competing criminal syndicate to drop what were previously Trickbot payloads. One of the other notorious malware, Emotet also aids TrickBot in its payload deliveries. As long as even 1 server on the list is online they can just push out a new config with more servers. TrickBot cycles through the entire server list until it finds a working server. And even as new ones pop up, Microsoft and the coalition is working to disable them immediately, leaving little or no room for expansion. Intel 471 found the following 16 control servers, five of which are listed below: Control Server IP AddressĪll control servers are unresponsive, although responsive ones do exist in Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan. Presently, TrickBot operators are trying hard to stay afloat by changing the IPs of control server configuration files with new IP addresses. See Also: Microsoft & Partners Take Down Data-Stealing Malware TrickBot So unless you strike a killing blow, you’re not going to impact them long term.” You’re teaching them where the weaknesses in their armor are and they have a team of developers ready to act on that information. That’s why every takedown attempt has some potential of giving ground to the adversary. Intel 471 COO and Cofounder Jason Passwaters Opens a new window said, “About 10 years ago it was much easier to completely take over or significantly disrupt a botnet, but cybercriminals are students of takedowns and have learned to make their operations more resilient to takedown efforts. Moreover, the continuous rotation of C2 IP addresses by Trickbot operators also didn’t help. As reported by Toolbox previously, the botnet, which is also deployed as a ransomware payload delivery tool, is quite resilient owing to its use of The Onion Router (TOR) and EmerDNS. The company found out that TrickBot was distributing “Microsoft Word document attachment with malicious macros that fetch and load a copy of Emotet onto the victim machine.” However, days after the initial takedown that disabled TrickBot operators partially, the malware was back in action, as discovered by Intel 471 Opens a new window. The operation was undertaken as a precautionary measure against the malware, which is pegged as one of the biggest cyber threats to the upcoming November 3, 2020, U.S. Global TrickBot C2 Servers After Microsoft and Partners’ Takedown Last WeekĪ coalition of Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), ESET, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, NTT and Symantec, and headed by Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) dismantled the TrickBot operation last week. ![]() ![]() Around 94% infrastructure of this credential-stealing malware has been eliminated and operations reduced to a fraction of its previous level. Nearly all of the critical operational infrastructure of the TrickBot botnet has been dismantled, Microsoft revealed on Tuesday. The coalition will continue to monitor and disable newly emerged servers to hackerproof the U.S. Microsoft and partners are giving TrickBot operators a tough time by taking down 120 of the 128 identified TrickBot servers, which amounts to 94% of its total operational infrastructure. ![]()
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