In an alarming move observed December 7th, Emotet has added dropping Cobalt Strike beacons before other trojans to its arsenal. This move significantly speeds up attacks, allowing groups to immediately install ransomware and other payloads on the victim network. The security research group Cryptolaemus published a thread on Twitter explaining their findings. In the thread, the group states that Emotet is no longer just commodity malware noise and that organizations should place this attack very high within their threat model
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