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Notorious Emotet botnet returns after a few months off

And it’s been sending out hundreds of thousands of malicious emails a day The Emotet malware-delivery botnet is back after a short hiatus, quickly ramping up the number of malicious emails it’s sending and sporting additional capabilities, including changes to its binary and delivering a new version of the IcedID malware dropper.…

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Emotet malware gang re-emerges with Chrome-based credit card heistware

Crimeware groups are re-inventing themselves The criminals behind the Emotet botnet – which rose to fame as a banking trojan before evolving into spamming and malware delivery – are now using it to target credit card information stored in the Chrome web browser.…

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Emotet malware gang re-emerges with Chrome-based credit card heistware

Lock up your Office macros: Emotet botnet back from the dead with Trickbot links

Nice to have nearly a year off from that malspam threat, but now it’s returned The Emotet malware delivery botnet is back, almost a year after law enforcement agencies bragged about shutting it down and arresting the operators.…

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Command ‘n’ control botnet of notorious Emotet Windows ransomware shut down in multinational police raid

Europol-led op knocks 700 servers offline EU police agency Europol has boasted of taking down the main botnet powering the Emotet trojan-cum-malware dropper, as part of a multinational police operation that included raids on the alleged operators’ homes in the Ukraine.…

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Command ‘n’ control botnet of notorious Emotet Windows ransomware shut down in multinational police raid