Emotet is disrupted, but the malware it installed lives on

The successful takedown of the Emotet C2 infrastructure announced January 27th 2021 is no small accomplishment, both from a technical point of view and for the larger safety and security of the internet as a whole. However, Emotet often drops other malware which can still work even though Emotet no…

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