{"id":1325,"date":"2021-02-05T06:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T06:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/cybersecurity-blog\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2024-07-24T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T07:55:00","slug":"rise-and-fall-of-emotet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/any.run\/cybersecurity-blog\/rise-and-fall-of-emotet\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise and Fall of Emotet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Emotet was the most threatening malware in the world. This nightmare of cybersecurity specialists challenged millions of infected computers and caused more than $2 billion in losses. And now the sophisticated botnet is taken down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emotet was known as a destructive cyber threat out there. And ANY.RUN sandbox<\/a> faced it a lot. Only in 2020, Trojan had 33,604 uploads in our service. Today we will talk about this botnet and trace the history of malware to its very end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emotet appeared as a banking Trojan in 2014. And just in 3 years, Emotet improved majorly – it acquired polymorphic nature and began distribution of other malware to the infected machines. Trojan constantly advanced its evasion techniques. During Emotet\u2019s existence, the malware had added advanced features and developed into a giant service of malware spreading.
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Attacks of Emotet\u2019s latest versions were held worldwide. Malware got computers and networks infected with other malicious programs by hijacked emails to deceive a user. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rise of Emotet<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For 6 years Emotet had been a number 1 threat and challenged companies security.  Here are some notable steps of Emotet\u2019s development: 
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