Emotet malware replaced by animated gifs – ACS

The Emotet malware payload was hijacked and replaced with animated gifs last week in a surprise turn of events that saw the infamous hacker group scramble to gain back control of their own malicious systems.
Distributed through spam phishing emails, Emotet usually enters a victims Windows machine through a malicious link or attachment such as a Word document that asks the user to enable macros.
This would normally ping a request to one of many compromised websites used by the gang behind Emote…

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