Botnet that knows your name and quotes your email is back with new tricks

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It returned with its trademark activity—a wave of malicious spam messages that appear to come from a known contact, address the recipient by name, and seem to be replying to an existing email thread. A malicious email sent last Tuesday, for instance, attached a Word document that had a massive amount of extraneous data added to the end. As a result, the file was more than 500MB in size, big enough to prevent some security products from being able to scan the contents.

Botnet that knows your name and quotes your email is back with new tricks

Quoting Herman Melville is only one of Emotet's latest innovations.

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