For 6 months, the infamous Emotet botnet has shown almost no activity, and now it's distributing malicious spam. Let's dive into details and discuss all you need to know about the notorious malware to combat it. Why is everyone scared of Emotet? Emotet is by far one of the most dangerous trojans ever created. The malware became a very destructive program as it grew in scale and … [Read more...] about All You Need to Know About Emotet in 2022
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Emotet Botnet Distributing Self-Unlocking Password-Protected RAR Files to Drop Malware
The notorious Emotet botnet has been linked to a new wave of malspam campaigns that take advantage of password-protected archive files to drop CoinMiner and Quasar RAT on compromised systems. In an attack chain detected by Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers, an invoice-themed ZIP file lure was found to contain a nested self-extracting (SFX) archive, the first archive acting as a … [Read more...] about Emotet Botnet Distributing Self-Unlocking Password-Protected RAR Files to Drop Malware
Emotet and Qbot in spam mailouts
Our experts have detected significant growth in complex malicious spam e-mails targeting organizations in various countries. The number of these malicious e-mails grew from around 3000 in February 2022 to approximately 30,000 in March. So far, our technologies have detected malicious e-mails written in English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian … [Read more...] about Emotet and Qbot in spam mailouts
Emotet is Back – Cisco Blogs
The text below is a joint work of Maria Jose Erquiaga, Onur Erdogan and Adela Jezkova from Cisco Cognitive team Emotet (also known as Geodo and Heodo) is a banking trojan, but it is also a modular malware that can be used to download other malware as Trickbot and IcedID [8, 9, 13]. Emotet was observed for the first time in 2014 [9]. In January 2021, in a combined effort by … [Read more...] about Emotet is Back – Cisco Blogs
European Authorities Disrupt Emotet — World’s Most Dangerous Malware
Law enforcement agencies from as many as eight countries dismantled the infrastructure of Emotet, a notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks over the past decade. The coordinated takedown of the botnet on Tuesday — dubbed "Operation Ladybird" — is the result of a joint effort between authorities in the Netherlands, … [Read more...] about European Authorities Disrupt Emotet — World’s Most Dangerous Malware
Emotet is back after a summer break
Threat Research This blog post was written by Colin Grady, William Largent, and Jaeson Schultz. Emotet is still evolving, five years after its debut as a banking trojan. It is one of the world’s most dangerous botnets and malware droppers-for-hire. The malware payloads dropped by Emotet serve to more fully monetize their attacks, and often … [Read more...] about Emotet is back after a summer break