Symantec Discovers That Banking Threat Actor Mealybug Is Now Aggressively Distributing Threats for Other Groups for Profit
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Mealybug’s business model evolved from lone threat actor to global distributor, collecting profits from other threat groups MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security company, today announced that Symantec’s advanced threat research group has discovered that activities undertaken by threat group Mealybug have evolved from maintaining and delivering its own custom banking Trojan to operating as a distributor of threats for other groups that operate similarly to steal information from targeted organizations. When Mealybug was first identified in 2014, it used custom malware called Emotet to spread Trojans that would then steal online banking credentials from computer users in Europe. New Symantec telemetry now reveals that Emotet is focused on U.S. targets and is also being used to spread Qakbot, a separate family of banking Trojans. Both Emot
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