Dangerous Emotet malwareresponsible for the formation botnet, An infected computer network with machines on which it is installed steals data from cards stored in browsers. Chromium. According to a cybersecurity company proof, data stored in other browsers is not attacked. O emotionfirst discovered in 2014, has intensified in recent months.

Emotete, as a living organism, has evolved

According to the investigation, botnet made emotion sends the stolen data to a new server, abandoning the one used previously. This new server is used directly by cybercriminals to attack and maintain botnet.

OUR proof explains that the curious thing about the new series of attacks from emotion in that in Google Chrome are goals. browser Google is the most used in the world, which justifies the focus of a cyber attack on data stored in Chromium. Fortunately, despite the great danger malwarenational governments successfully launched counterattacks against botnetshutting down the infrastructure used for cyber attacks.

Emotet: this year’s threat leader

OUR HP Wolf Security reported on May 16 that it had identified a 27 percent increase (in the first quarter of the year) in the detection of offensive threats from emotional spam, compared to the fourth quarter of 2021, when the threat resurfaced. OUR ESETcybersecurity company, also reported that the activities malware increased in 2022

Report HP Wolf Security Threat Analysiswhich presents an analysis of cyberattacks around the world, shows that emotion climbed 36 positions and became a family most detected malware this quarter (which is 9% of all captured malware). One of these attacks was directed atJapanese organizations and engaged in email interception to trick recipients into infecting their computers.an 879% increase in .XLSM (Microsoft Excel) malware samples captured compared to the previous quarter.

Because the Microsoft began disabling macros, HP saw an increase in non-Office formats, including Java Archive (+476%) and JavaScript (+42%) files, compared to the previous quarter. Organizations find it harder to defend against these attacks because detection rates for these file types are often low, increasing the chance of infection.

“O emotion has already been described CIS (United States Cyber ​​Security Agency) as one of malware more destructive and costly to fix. Operators in this group often collaborate with groups ransomware, the pattern we can expect to continue. So the revival emotion this is bad news for both business and the public sector,” explains Alex Holland, Senior Malware Analyst in the Threat Research Group at HP Wolf Security. “O emotion also continued to favor macro attacks, perhaps to introduce viruses before Microsoft’s April deadline, or simply because people can be tricked into clicking in the wrong place.”

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