It has been reported the infamous Emotet malware has started a new spam campaign that pretends to be a scanned copy of Edward Snowden’s new book. Unsuspecting users who open the attachment and enable its content will find that they have become infected with Emotet, most likely Trickbot, and possibly other malware.
After approximately four months of inactivity, Emotet woke up again on September 16th and since then has been spewing forth a legion of spam. These emails typically pretend to be invoices, financial documents, and other business documents with malicious Word attachments that infect you with a variety of malware.
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