Malware News Emotet creators shift from banking trojan to threat distributor

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Mealybug, the threat group behind the Emotet banking trojan, has evolved over the years from making its own custom malware to operating as a distributor for other threat groups.

It is unclear whether this is because Mealybug was finding it harder to make money exclusively from banking Trojans but researchers noted that banks increasingly using two-factor authentication has made it harder to compromise accounts by stealing credentials, according to a July 18 blog post.

Symantec researchers predict the firm is presumably taking a cut of the profits made by the threat actors who use its services.
 

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