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the Emotet ‘dropper’
ch had been seemingly
our months. There
mpaigns identified,
ase over the last
emails being analysed
er in this spike, as the
re was a component in
entified. This massive
ighly likely to be an
tors refocusing their
ation to exploiting the
f ransomware.
“It’s no surprise that threat actors are
using a combination of simplistic and
sophisticated attacks to gain access to
organisations. That’s also likely why we saw
such a huge spike in the recently dormant
Emotet campaign – they’re attempting to
gain as much attack space as possible to
land other sophisticated attacks or hold
organisations hostage,” said Josh Douglas,
Vice President of Threat Intelligence
at Mimecast. “These reports offer
organisations a global view on how threats
are evolving so they can make informed
decisions on how to best strengthen their
cyber-resilience posture.” •
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