July 28, 2020 By Sergiu Gatlan
The Emotet malware botnet is now also using stolen attachments to increase the authenticity of spam emails attempting to infect targets' systems.
This is the first time the botnet is using stolen attachments to add credibility to emails as Binary Defense threat researcher James Quinn told BleepingComputer.
This new tactic adds to the Emotet gang's leveraging of hijacked email conversation threads where a malicious URL or attachment would be included in new emails attached to existing conversations as a concealment measure (as first spotted by Minerva Labs in March 2019).
