Microsoft security team has issued an alert: Emotet Trojan by Christmas mail
E-Mails have been in the Christmas boom. However, not all of the messages bring joy. Security experts point to an increased spread of malicious software. Currently, increasingly in circulation: the Trojan Emotet.
E-mail with Christmas greetings these days are not uncommon. However, as the security team of Microsoft informing on his official Twitter channel, is required when receiving such messages of caution. Accordingly, on Christmas contact currently, a growing number of E-Mails with malicious Surprise: In the attached file, the Trojan is Emotet.
Background: What is Emotet? So you protect yourself!
The relevant Twitter Thread from the Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel), we have embedded below. It States that the malicious software hidden in files with names such as “Christmas Party” (English: Christmas) or “Holiday Schedule” (holiday planning).
That Emotet with a kind of special “Christmas promotion” is widely used, is not new. Already in 2018, there was the dangerous of advent messages.
Also in this year, so beware of email attachments – especially from unknown contacts, but also a supposedly well-known the sender is not a guarantee for a safe attachment. The slightest doubt, you should always ensure the sender’s return!
DisplayTweet Microsoft Security Intelligence
S annual season’s greetings are here: the gang has launched its campaign for holidays with email subjects and malicious attachment file names like “Party menu”, “Christmas party”, “Holiday schedule 2019-2020 Emotet’”. pic.twitter.com/tCgoENbYw5
— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) December 14, 2019
