By Dave McKay | July 18, 2020
Emotet Cybercrime Gang Back in the Saddle
New attacks have been detected, launched from the Emotet botnet. Emotet was last used in anger in Feburary 2020.
Emotet is sending out spam emails in an attemp to infect users with its malware payload.
“Today’s campaign so far has recipients primarily in the US and UK with the lure being sent in English,” said Sherrod DeGrippo, Senior Director, Threat Research at Proofpoint
“The emails contain either a Word attachment or URLs linking to the download of a Word document that contains malicious macros which, if enabled by the users, will download and install Emotet.
“The campaign is ongoing and has reached around 80,000 messages so far today,” DeGrippo added.
Crooks Helping Crooks
The Emotet trojan is a product of one of the largest, and most active, cybercrime operations. The Emotet gang use spam emails to infect users’ computers with the Emotet trojan. The trojan can then download and install other malware. Sometimes this secondary malware is for their own use, and sometimes they are providing an infection service for other cybercrime groups.
Source: ZDNet