"Emotet Group Harvested Over 4.3 Million Victim Emails"

Researchers have discovered that the threat actors behind the notorious Emotet botnet managed to collect over four million victim email addresses over the past few years.  In all, 4,324,770 email addresses were found from a wide range of countries and domains.  The email addresses were found from two separate databases that belonged to Emotet.  One of the databases contained email credentials stored by Emotet for sending spam via victims' mail providers. The other database had web credentials harvested from browsers that held them to expedite subsequent logins.

 

Infosecurity reports: "Emotet Group Harvested Over 4.3 Million Victim Emails"

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