Security News > 2020 > November > TrickBot Gets Updated to Survive Takedown Attempts
Following a takedown attempt in October, the TrickBot malware has received various improvements that are designed to make it more resilient.
On October 12, Microsoft announced that, together with several partners, it managed to legally disable existing TrickBot infrastructure and prevent operators from registering additional command and control domains.
At the time, Microsoft underlined that the effort was aimed at keeping TrickBot down during the U.S. presidential election.
Now, roughly one month later, security researchers are observing multiple updates being made to TrickBot to increase the botnet's resilience and improve its reconnaissance capabilities.
"Completely dismantling TrickBot has proven more than difficult, and similar operations in the past against popular Trojans has proven that the cybercriminal community will always push to bring back into operation something that's profitable, versatile and popular. TrickBot might have suffered a serious blow, but its operators seem to be scrambling to bring it back, potentially more resilient and difficult to extirpate than ever before," Bitdefender points out.