What's the point of breaking up Emotet?
“Emotet has always been one of the most widespread malware families in recent years. What are the long-term benefits of breaking up Emotet? A comment from FireEye. While it has historically been linked to home banking fraud, the malware has also been used to spread spam and secondary malware since 2017. We believe this was done on behalf of a limited number of groups using Emotet as malware-as-a-service. Ransomware campaigns with Emotet Between October 2020 and January 2021 we observed that Emotet spread several malware variants. These were used to launch ransomware campaigns ...