And it's been sending out hundreds of thousands of malicious emails a day
Comebacks are old hat for Emotet, which began life in 2014 as a banking trojan before evolving into a botnet. Law enforcement from the United States, Europe, the UK, and Ukraine in January 2021 took down Emotet's infrastructure, sparking hope that the malware threat was over. However, the group – also known as Mummy Spider and Gold Crestwood – resurfaced in November 2021 and soon became aEmotet went dark July 13 before returning November 2.
"Heck, they could have just wanted to take a vacation and enjoy their massive earnings for a while," Clements told. He added that it wouldn't be surprising if there were new people in charge."It's very possible that original members decided they had stolen enough money and it was time to retire and hand the reins to new people."The Register"Because it's a known malware, various security vendors know how to block it," Segev said.
"However, while moving a file to a template location, the operating system asks users to confirm, and [says] that administrator permissions are required to do such a move," they wrote."It remains unclear how effective this technique is." Since November 2, Proofpoint has found new commands, new check-in packet information, and an updated packer in Emotet. The threat group also reimplemented the communications loop – using the Windows API CreateTimerQueueEx to determine how often requests are made to the command-and-control servers.
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