New Emotet Malware Found A New Way To Distribute
Emotet is one of the most feared malware strains circulating right now. The team behind it has managed to infect a staggering array of targets all around the globe. To say that it is a major threat would be an understatement. Recently the group behind Emotet just upped the ante even further. Researchers have recently discovered that the malware is now being distributed via a new channel. The new channel is a malicious Windows App Installer that appears to be an innocuous Adobe PDF reader. Windows App Installer is a built-in feature of both Windows 10 and 11 and systems can be infected by "tricking" users to click attachments in emails which trigger the App Installer. Emotet's preferred methodology revolves around a "conversation in progress" approach. An email is crafted that already has several replies. So at a glance it appears that the recipient and whomever sent this email have already been conversing about something. The "most recent" reply say...