Emotet botnet

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2022
Emotet spam uses unconventional IP address formats to evade detection

Experts warn Emotet malware campaign using “unconventional” IP address formats in an attempt to evade detection. Threat actors behind a recent Emotet malware campaign have been observed using using “unconventional” IP address formats to evade detection. Trend Micro researchers reported that threat actors are using hexadecimal and octal representations of the IP address. “We observed Emotet spam […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2021
Operation Reacharound – Emotet malware is back

The Emotet botnet is still active, ten months after an international operation coordinated by Europol shut down its infrastructure. Early this year, law enforcement and judicial authorities worldwide conducted a joint operation, named Operation Ladybird, which disrupted the EMOTET botnet. At the time the investigators have taken control of its infrastructure in an international coordinated action.  […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2021
Bye Bye Emotet, law enforcement pushed the uninstall code via the botnet

European law enforcement has conducted an operation aimed at performing a mass-sanitization of computers infected with the infamous Emotet Windows malware. European law enforcement agencies automatically wiped the infamous Emotet malware from infected systems across the world as part of a mass sanitization operation. Early this year, law enforcement and judicial authorities worldwide conducted a […]