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In the 3rd quarter of 2020, around 38% of all downloadable malware were found hidden in Office documents – In the first quarter of 2021, this rate decreased slightly to 34%, only to set new records by touching 43% in the next quarter. Microsoft Office documents help tens of hundreds of millions of users in […]
Emotet, the notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, was automatically wiped from infected computers en masse following a European law enforcement operation. The development comes three months after a coordinated disruption of Emotet as part of “Operation Ladybird” to seize control of servers used to run and maintain the […]
Emotet is a deadly botnet malware that came alive after four months of no activity. The malware targeted users around the world with malicious emails that were set in a financial tone and usually seemed as a reply to a previous conversation. The emails then prompted users to click on malware-ridden files or infected attachments. […]
Emotet, a deadly malware botnet, has started a new spam email campaign after being underground for nearly four months, a security researcher confirmed to ZDNet. According to Raashid Bhat, Emotet is sending spam emails that are laced with malware attachments and/or download links to malware embedded files. Emotet is fully back in action and spamming. […]
A new malspam campaign pushes Emotet banking malware along with Qakbot as the follow-up malware. The Emotet is a banking trojan that has the capabilities to steal personal information such as the username and the passwords. Security researcher Brad Duncan tracked the malspam campaign that pushes Emotet malware and Qakbot as the follow-up malware. Emotet […]
The US-Cert team issued an alert for advanced Emotet banking malware attack that targets governments, private and public sectors in the most destructive way to steal various sensitive information. Emotet banking malware is continually spreading since 2017 and it is one of the costly banking trojans that mainly affecting territorial (SLTT) governments. Recent malware campaign […]
A wide Spread EMOTET malware emerging again with new stealthy capabilities to hijack the Windows API and evade the sandbox detection which also gives more pain for Malware analysis. Previous future called RunPE that is used for hiding malware into the Legitimate process to evade the security scanners and inject its code into windows executable process. In […]
We discussed the re-emergence of banking malware EMOTET in September and how it has adopted a wider scope since it wasn’t picky about the industries it attacks. We recently discovered that EMOTET has a new iteration (detected as TSPY_EMOTET.SMD10) with a few changes in its usual behavior and new routines that allow it to elude sandbox and […]