Researchers from the cybersecurity firm TrickBot have reported that the banking Trojan horse Deep Instinct has collected more than 250 million email addresses. Deep Instinct, which was first detected in 2016, has since developed into a highly sophisticated form of malware capable of stealing cookies and being adapted to target tax documents. TrickBot claimed that government departments from the US, the UK and Canada had all been compromised by the malware.
Researchers from the cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct have reported that the banking Trojan horse TrickBot has collected more than 250 million email addresses. TrickBot, which was first detected in 2016, has since developed into a highly sophisticated form of malware capable of stealing cookies and being adapted to target tax documents. Deep Instinct claimed that government departments from the US, the UK and Canada had all been compromised by the malware.