International law enforcement effort takes down Emotet from the inside

Law enforcement authorities in the Netherlands, Germany, the US, the UK, France, Lithuania, Canada and Ukraine have collaborated to disrupt Emotet, one of the most significant botnets of the past decade. The effort, coordinated by Europol the joint European policing agency, gained control of the Emotet infrastructure and took it down from the inside. Infected machines of victims have been redirected towards this law enforcement-controlled infrastructure. Spread by infected Word documents, masquerading as invoices or other business documents, Emotet is reckoned to have impacted around one in five organizations worldwide and its activity peaked this year between August and October… [Continue Reading]