The notorious Emotet malware, in its return after a short hiatus, is now being distributed via Microsoft OneNote email attachments in an attempt to bypass macro-based security restrictions and compromise systems. Emotet, linked to a threat actor tracked as Gold Crestwood, Mummy Spider, or TA542, continues to be a potent and resilient threat despite attempts […]
The Emotet malware operation has continued to refine its tactics in an effort to fly under the radar, while also acting as a conduit for other dangerous malware such as Bumblebee and IcedID. Emotet, which officially reemerged in late 2021 following a coordinated takedown of its infrastructure by authorities earlier that year, has continued to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Threat actors associated with the notorious Emotet malware are continually shifting their tactics and command-and-control (C2) infrastructure to escape detection, according to new research from VMware. Emotet is the work of a threat actor tracked as Mummy Spider (aka TA542), emerging in June 2014 as a banking trojan before morphing into an all-purpose loader in […]
The Emotet malware is now being leveraged by ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) groups, including Quantum and BlackCat, after Conti’s official retirement from the threat landscape this year. Emotet started off as a banking trojan in 2014, but updates added to it over time have transformed the malware into a highly potent threat that’s capable of downloading other […]
Emotet malware is back with ferocious vigor, according to ESET telemetry in the first four months of 2022. Will it survive the ever-tightening controls on macro-enabled documents?
Image Source: Toptal The notorious Emotet malware has turned to deploy a new module designed to siphon credit card information stored in the Chrome web browser. The credit card stealer, which exclusively singles out Chrome, has the ability to exfiltrate the collected information to different remote command-and-control (C2) servers, according to enterprise security company Proofpoint, […]
The threat actor behind the prolific Emotet botnet is testing new attack methods on a small scale before co-opting them into their larger volume malspam campaigns, potentially in response to Microsoft’s move to disable Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across its products. Calling the new activity a “departure” from the group’s typical […]
The insidious Emotet botnet, which staged a return in November 2021 after a 10-month-long hiatus, is once again exhibiting signs of steady growth, amassing a swarm of over 100,000 infected hosts for perpetrating its malicious activities. “While Emotet has not yet attained the same scale it once had, the botnet is showing a strong resurgence […]
One of the most dangerous and infamous threats is back again. In January 2021, global officials took down the botnet. Law enforcement sent a destructive update to the Emotet’s executables. And it looked like the end of the trojan’s story. But the malware never ceased to surprise. November 2021, it was reported that TrickBot no […]
In a recent ongoing Emotet malware campaign, it has been identified that the threat actors behind this malicious campaign are using the unconventional IP address formats for the first time to confuse and deceive the security solutions. Here the threat actors have used hexadecimal and octal representations of the IP address. They use this to […]
Cybersecurity specialists from Trend Micro report the detection of a spam campaign dedicated to the deployment of the Emotet banking Trojan in which threat actors use hexadecimal and octal representations of IP addresses in order to evade detection through a tactic known as pattern matching. These routes also resort to social engineering techniques to trick […]
Social engineering campaigns involving the deployment of the Emotet malware botnet have been observed using “unconventional” IP address formats for the first time in a bid to sidestep detection by security solutions. This involves the use of hexadecimal and octal representations of the IP address that, when processed by the underlying operating systems, get automatically […]
Microsoft has rolled out Patch Tuesday updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities in Windows and other software, including one actively exploited flaw that’s being abused to deliver Emotet, TrickBot, or Bazaloader malware payloads. The latest monthly release for December fixes a total of 67 flaws, bringing the total number of bugs patched by the company […]
The operators of TrickBot malware have infected an estimated 140,000 victims across 149 countries a little over a year after attempts were to dismantle its infrastructure, even as the malware is fast becoming an entry point for Emotet, another botnet that was taken down at the start of 2021. Most of the victims detected since […]
Bad news for the cybersecurity fraternity. Emotet malware that was dubbed the “World’s Most Dangerous” and “Widely Spread Malware” is back. As per a report from security researcher Luca Ebach, the notorious TrickBot malware is now used as an entry point for distributing a new version of Emotet malware on the systems TrickBot previously owned. […]
The operators of the dangerous Emotet malware attacked again after almost a year of inactivity, this time in the form of a spam campaign that aims to deliver malicious files to users around the world. As some users may remember, Emotet is a malware variant capable of running in the memory of the affected system […]
The notorious Emotet malware is staging a comeback of sorts nearly 10 months after a coordinated law enforcement operation dismantled its command-and-control infrastructure in late January 2021. According to a new report from security researcher Luca Ebach, the infamous TrickBot malware is being used as an entry point to distribute what appears to be a […]
The data breach notification site now allows you to check if your login credentials may have been compromised by Emotet
In January, the FBI, along with other law enforcement agencies around the world has recalled that the Emotet malware was automatically has been removed from all the infected computers. The law enforcement agencies that are involved in this operation were from the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, Great Britain, France, Lithuania, Canada, and Ukraine. According […]