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Emotet Resurfaces on the Back of TrickBot After Nearly a Year
2021-11-16 13:57

Emotet, one of the most prolific and disruptive botnet malware-delivery systems, appears to be making a comeback after nearly a year of inactivity, researchers have found.

"TrickBot launched what appears to be the newer Emotet loader."

Because Emotet was largely dismantled earlier this year by an international law-enforcement effort, researchers said they were "Suspicious about the findings" and conducted further verification of the activity.

Emotet appeared to be put out of commission by an international law-enforcement collaborative takedown of a network of hundreds of botnet servers supporting the system in January 2021.

Often, it was Emotet using its vast network to deliver TrickBot as a payload in targeted email phishing campaigns, though TrickBot also in the past has delivered Emotet samples - which appears to be the case once more.

Researchers detailed the similarities between previous samples of Emotet and the one they observed being dropped by TrickBot on Sunday.


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https://threatpost.com/emotet-resurfaces-trickbot/176362/