Tag: emotet
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From Amazon to Emotet: a look at those phishing and malware emails that bypassed email security products
This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. On this blog, we regularly look at those phishing and malware emails that we notice bypassing email security products in our test lab – something which they do at much a higher rate than ordinary spam emails. This…
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Emotet trojan starts stealing full emails from infected machines
Researchers at Kryptos Logic have discovered that the Emotet banking trojan is exfiltrating entire email bodies as opposed to merely email addresses. Emotet was first discovered in 2014 as a banking trojan but has since evolved to become mostly a distributor of other malware. A typical Emotet infection starts with an email attachment, which downloads…
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Emotet trojan starts stealing full emails from infected machines
Researchers at Kryptos Logic have discovered that the Emotet banking trojan is exfiltrating entire email bodies as opposed to merely email addresses. Emotet was first discovered in 2014 as a banking trojan but has since evolved to become mostly a distributor of other malware. A typical Emotet infection starts with an email attachment, which downloads…
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VB2017 paper: Peering into spam botnets
Spam continues to be an important infection vector for many malware campaigns, but while a lot of attention is paid to the payloads delivered by these campaigns – Andrew Brandt’s VB2017 talk on Trickbot being just one of many examples – few researchers study the botnets used to send the emails. Bucking that trend are CERT…
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VB2017 paper: Peering into spam botnets
Spam continues to be an important infection vector for many malware campaigns, but while a lot of attention is paid to the payloads delivered by these campaigns – Andrew Brandt’s VB2017 talk on Trickbot being just one of many examples – few researchers study the botnets used to send the emails. Bucking that trend are CERT…