If that wasn’t enough for us, Qbot’s malspam campaign resumed earlier in August, spreading globally and infecting new targets. A few days later, we identified a newer Qbot sample dropped by latest Emotet campaign, which led us discovering a renewed command and control infrastructure and brand new malware techniques distributed through Emotet’s infection process. Some of these campaigns included installing an updated version of Qbot on victims’ PCs. Towards the end of July, one of today’s most serious cyber threats, the Emotet Trojan, returned to full activity and launched multiple malspam campaigns, impacting 5% of organizations globally. We assumed that the campaign was stopped to allow those behind QBot to conduct further malware development, but we did not imagine that it would return so quickly. Hijacking users’ legitimate email threads from their Outlook client and using those threads to try and infect other users’ PCsĪ prominent campaign using QBot ran from March to the end of June this year.Allowing the Bot controller to connect to the victim’s computer (even when the victim is logged in) to make banking transactions from the victim’s IP address.Installing other malware on infected machines, including ransomware.Stealing information from infected machines, including passwords, emails, credit card details and more.It has become the malware equivalent of a Swiss Army knife, capable of: It is highly structured, multi-layered, and is being continuously developed with new features to extend its capabilities.These new ‘tricks’ mean that despite its age, Qbot is still a dangerous and persistent threat to organizations.

The malware, which has also been dubbed Qakbot and Pinkslipbot, was discovered in 2008 and is known for collecting browsing data and stealing banking credentials and other financial information from victims. The notorious banking trojan Qbot has been in business for more than a decade. An Old Bot’s Nasty New Tricks: Exploring Qbot’s Latest Attack Methods

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