October 1, 2020 By Pierluigi Paganini
Cyber security firm launches a new service that allows users to check if an email domain or address was part of an Emotet spam campaign.
Experts worldwide warn about a surge in the Emotet activity, recently Microsoft along Italy and the Netherlands CERT/CSIRT agencies reported a significant increase of Emotet attacks targeting the private sector and public administration entities. Similar alerts were issued in the same period by Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) in France, Japan, and New Zealand.
Emotet is a malware infection that spreads through spam emails containing malicious Word or Excel documents. When opened and macros are enabled, it will install the Emotet trojan on a victim’s computer.
