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TrickBot takes down server infrastructure after months of inactivity

February 28, 2022

The king of tricks is dead. Long live the new king. Or will it make a comeback?

While we already assumed TrickBot was dead in the water, the shutdown of the server infrastructure on February 24, 2022, did not go unnoticed. Is this really the end of one of the most active botnets in the last decade?

History

The rise of TrickBot started when it was a banking Trojan designed to steal personal financial data. Initial development started in 2016, with many of its original features inspired by Dyreza which was another banking Trojan.

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