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Emotet Campaign Restarts After Seven-Week Hiatus
Multiple security researchers note the return of an email campaign attempting to spread the malware, which is often used to drop the Ryuk ransomware and Trickbot banking Trojan.
In October, three surges of spam laden with the Emotet downloader worked to spread the malware to vulnerable users systems, starting a sequence that often results in a Ryuk ransomware infection or attempts to steal bank account credentials via the Trickbot banking Trojan.
On Oct. 30, with the completion of the third campaign, the group s spamming died down and almost no subsequent traffic appeared. Until now.
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Bank executives have said for years that their worst nightmare is a successful cyberattack against the industry. Now theyâre watching one unfold across government agencies in what could be one of the biggest hacks in U.S. history.
The US Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the country’s nuclear stockpile, said that the malware was isolated to business networks and didn’t affect national security functions.
Nonetheless, the effect of Thursday’s revelations was confirmation that no single person or agency including the highest reaches of the US government is certain of exactly what the hackers had infiltrated, let alone the full extent of what was taken. A Kremlin official has denied the allegations.
President-elect Joe Biden took time out of his day to issue a statement: “I want to be clear: my administration will make cybersecurity a top priority at every level of government – and we will make dealing with this breach a top priority from the moment we take office.”