What is Emotet Malware?
Emotet is a malware that distributes through spam email campaigns with malicious attachments. If the user opens the attachment from the spam email, it will run malicious scripts or macros and download the malicious emotet DLL file.
Once successfully infected threat actor steals the emails to use in future spamming campaigns and also includes malicious payloads to the system which may lead to ransomware attacks.
Emotet Malware again starts infecting users
Threat actors paused the Emotet malware campaign as they found the bug which makes to lose it’s infecting capability and not infecting the target. Same details shared in the below tweet.
2022-04-22 (Friday) – #Emotet #epoch4 malspam sent zipped Windows shorcut (.LNK). LNK didn't work in my lab or online sandboxes. But the shortcut contains script that I copied into a .vbs file, which ran fine. LNK: https://t.co/zfiDZytclb VBS: https://t.co/PMKUrA7RIn pic.twitter.com/XiNbazHeY1
— Brad (@malware_traffic) April 22, 2022
Later security researchers found that Emotet fixed the issue and they restarted spamming campaings with protected zip files. If you receive such e-mail please don’t open such e-mails or download any suspicious attachments.
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