World’s most dangerous malware emotet disrupted through global action

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Law enforcement and judicial authorities worldwide have this week disrupted one of most significant botnets of the past decade: EMOTET. Investigators have now taken control of its infrastructure in an international coordinated action.

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Law enforcement has started to distribute an Emotet module to infected devices that will uninstall the malware on April 25th, 2021.

Today, Europol announced the disruption of the infamous Emotet email spamming botnet used to distribute malicious Word spam attachments that install malware such as TrickBot and Qbot.

These attacks usually lead to the full network compromise of infected companies and the deployment of Ryuk and Conti by TrickBot, and ProLock or Egregor by Qbot.