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Weekly: Emotet Gets a Vaccine, NSA Drovorub Advisory, and North Korean Activity plus Bureau 121

August 21, 2020 Digital Shadows

ShadowTalk hosts Viktoria, Adam, Dylan, and Stefano bring you the latest in threat intel. In this week’s episode they cover: 

  • The ever-popular Emotet - does this dangerous malware have a vaccine? Adam and the team discuss how researchers found a cure.
  • What is the Drovorub malware and what is it trying to achieve?
  • Takeaways from the U.S. Army’s report on North Korean tactics - what do we know about North Korea’s cyber activity and Bureau 121?

Get this week’s intelligence summary at https://resources.digitalshadows.com/digitalshadows/weekly-intelligence-summary-21-august-2020

***Resources from this week’s podcast***

Emotet: https://www.binarydefense.com/emocrash-exploiting-a-vulnerability-in-emotet-malware-for-defense/

Drovorub: https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/nsa-and-fbi-expose-russian-previously-undisclosed-malware-drovorub-in-cybersecurity-advisory

Bureau 121: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7038686-US-Army-report-on-North-Korean-military.html

Optiv CTIE Report: https://resources.digitalshadows.com/digitalshadows/optivctiereport2020

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