Tag Archives: Emotet

Warning about a new Emotet-Ransomeware campaign (Sept. 2020)

Posted on 2020-09-11 by guenni

[German]The cyber criminals behind the blackmail Trojan Emotet malware are currently running a new ransomware campaign. Security authorities in various countries are warning of new waves of attacks. Advertising

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EmoCrash protectet systems for 6 months against emotet-infections

Posted on 2020-08-17 by guenni

[German]For six months, security specialists rolled out a kind of vaccine (EmoCrash) against the ransomware Emotet for authorities and operators of critical infrastructures. EmoCrash takes advantage of a bug in Emotet to protect systems from infection. It was not until … Continue reading →

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How to find weak passwords in Active Directory and eliminate them with PowerShell

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Emotet Trojan can overload computers on the network

Posted on 2020-04-05 by guenni

[German]An infection with the Emotet malware can slow down an entire corporate network because the CPUs of Windows devices are being used to their maximum capacity, bringing network and internet traffic down to zero. Advertising

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Cryptolaemus and the fight against Emotet

Posted on 2020-03-02 by guenni

[German]A group of security researchers and administrators are trying to fight agains attacks by emotet malware for some time. Now an article with an inteview about this group has been published. I find interesting the references to the group of … Continue reading →

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