At the end of January 2021, Europol announced that a coordinated group of international authorities had taken control of the Emotet botnet infrastructure. Prior to this takedown, Emotet had spread itself using previously compromised email addresses to send tens of thousands of messages with malware-laden attachments using a technique called…

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