Over the past week, global cybersecurity agencies have published security alerts warning about a large uptick in Emotet malware attacks targeting their respective countries.
The recent Emotet activity includes email spam campaigns originating from their own infrastructure, targeting companies and government agencies. Targeted organisations who received the emails and opened the attachments were at risk of getting infected with the dangerous malware.
Experts Comments
September 17, 2020
The recent rise of the infamous Emotet malware attacks come to no surprise, as BlackBerry’s Research and Intelligence team actively tracks the Emotet botnets called Epoch 1, Epoch 2 and Epoch 3. These botnets operate as a sophisticated malware delivery platform that is frequently updated to evolve and stay ahead of new security metrics and blockers built to fight it. As of late, the botnets were observed distributing banking trojans named Qbot and Trickbot, as well as additional tooling,.....Read More
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"This strain of malware continues to be successful because Emotet has a good infrastructure for malicious activity. ..."
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