Security News > 2020 > October > Emotet Emails Strike Thousands of DNC Volunteers
On Thursday, hundreds of U.S. organizations were targeted by an Emotet spear-phishing campaign, which sent thousands of emails purporting to be from the Democratic National Committee and recruiting potential Democratic volunteers.
Emotet has historically utilized a variety of lure themes leveraging current events - from COVID-19 to Greta Thunberg.
Emotet returned earlier in July after a five-month hiatus, when researchers spotted the malware in a campaign that has spammed Microsoft Office users with hundreds of thousands of malicious emails since Friday.
Once victims clicked on the links in the text messages, they are asked to hand over their banking credentials and download a file that infects their systems with the Emotet malware.
Researchers uncovered an Emotet malware sample with the ability to spread to insecure Wi-Fi networks that are located nearby to an infected device.