RANSOMEWARE
Hackbit Ransomware Attack Uses GuLoader, Malicious Microsoft A ransomware campaign, dubbed Hackbit, is targeting mid-level employees across Austria, Switzerland and Germany with malicious Excel attachments delivered via the popular email provider GMX. The spear-phishing based campaign is low volume and so far targeted the pharmaceutical, legal, financial, business service, retail, and healthcare sectors. Low-volume style campaigns, sometimes called snowshoe spam attacks, use multiple domains to send relatively small blasts of bogus emails to circumvent reputation- or volume-based spam filtering. “The largest volume of messages we observed were sent to the information technology, manufacturing, insurance, and technology verticals,” wrote Proofpoint researchers in a Monday analysis . They observed, “the majority of roles targeted in the Hakbit campaigns are customer-facing with individuals’ business contact information revealed publicly on company websites, and/or adver...