Trustwave SpiderLabs’ spam traps have identified an increase in threats packaged in password-protected archives with about 96% of these being spammed by the Emotet Botnet. In the first half of 2022, we identified password-protected ZIP files as the third most popular archive format used by cybercriminals to conceal malware.

In this intrusion from May 2022, we observed a domain-wide compromise that started from a malware ridden Excel document containing the never-dying malware, Emotet. The post-exploitation started ver…

Emotet is back in business and it’s revealing some new tricks. Not long ago, Emotet introduced a new module, the Google Chrome’s credit card grabber. More recently, the SMB spreader module has been brought back and is now, once again, part of the infection chain.

Emotet is back in business and it’s revealing some new tricks. Not long ago, Emotet introduced a new module, the Google Chrome’s credit card grabber. More recently, the SMB spreader module has been brought back and is now, once again, part of the infection chain.