Dangerous Sleeper: Emotet explores new attack vectors
In 2021, the network around Emotet was broken up. But that doesn't mean that Emotet has completely disappeared from the web. On the contrary: there are always signs that the group around Emotet is looking for new avenues of attack. Since its return, Emotet has appeared in several spam campaigns. Mealybug, the hacker group behind the botnet, has developed numerous new modules and revised existing ones. The masterminds behind Emotet learned a lot from the takedown two years ago and invested a lot of time in preventing their botnet from being discovered. Emotet's infrastructure is dead - the...