Beware of Emotet, the latest malware to hit the world

January 29, 2021 11:25

Law enforcement authorities across several countries have taken down a network of what they describe as the "world's most dangerous malware', reports Rishi Iyengar on CNN.com.

The malware, Emotet, gained access to users' computers through infected email attachments, including documents purporting to be "invoices, shipping notices and information about Covid-19," European police agency Europol, which coordinated the effort, said in a statement Wednesday, he reports.

'The global effort to disrupt and take control of the compromised network, known as a botnet, was carried out jointly between eight countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands. The network consisted of several hundred servers across the world, Europol said,' Iyengar writes.

An investigation by Dutch police yielded a database of email addresses, passwords and usernames that were compromised by Emotet.

Users can check whether their email addresses were breached through this link, the report adds.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has described Emotet as 'one of the most prevalent ongoing threats,' the report says, here.

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