Emotet Revived with Large Spam Campaigns Around the World

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Less than a month after reactivating its command and control (C2) servers, the Emotet botnet has come to like by spewing spam messages to countries around the globe.
Malicious emails with Emotet's signature have been spotted Monday morning targeting Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Italy. The spam campaign also hit the USA, targeting both individuals, business, and government entities.

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Emotet Revived with Large Spam Campaigns Around the World

Less than a month after reactivating its command and control (C2) servers, the Emotet botnet has come to like by spewing spam messages to countries around the globe.

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"From home users all the way up to government owned domains. The sender list includes the same dispersion as the targets. Many times we’ve seen precise targeting using a sender who’s contact list appears to have been scraped and used as the target list for that sender. This would include b2b as well as gov to gov." - Cofense

 

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Emotet is back: botnet springs back to life with new spam campaign | Malwarebytes Labs

After months of laying dormant, the notorious Emotet is back, with its botnet spewing spam disguised as invoices to global users.

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Emotet Tries to Infect You By Claiming It's Snowden's Book

Emotet has started a new spam campaign that pretends to be a scanned copy of Edward Snowden's new book. Unsuspecting users who open the attachment and enable its content will find that they have become infected with Emotet, most likely Trickbot, and possibly other malware.

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