ing efforts by law enforcement agencies worldwide to shut its operations down last year, Emotet came back online on Nov. 15, 2021, with only the subtlest of makeovers. It didn’t take long before this threat group was back up to its usual shenanigans of spamming victims, using malicious Microsoft® Word documents and links to infect users.
Since its reappearance, the notorious Emotet malware has been observed being dropped by the Trickbot malware family, in an apparent effort to reconstitute Emotet’s botnet base.
This isn’t the first time the two malware families have been seen colluding. Previously, Emotet was observed installing Trickbot on infected machines. It now would appear that Emotet has turned to its established business partner Trickbot for assistance in gaining back some of what was lost in the police action that dismantled Emotet’s global botnet network last year.
The good news is that BlackBerry prevents Emotet attacks from occurring. Check out our new video and watch BlackBerry go head-to-head with a live sample of Emotet.
You can also learn more about Emotet in our latest “deep dive” blog:
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