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Emotet Botnet Reactivated and Sending Large Volumes of Malicious Emails

HIPAA Journal

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The Emotet botnet has been reactivated after a 5-month period of dormancy and is being used to send large volumes of spam emails to organizations in the United States and United Kingdom.

The Emotet botnet is a network of compromised computers that have been infected with Emotet malware. Emotet malware is an information stealer and malware downloader that has been used to distribute a variety of banking Trojans, including the TrickBot Trojan.

Emotet hijacks email accounts and...

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