November 15, 2021 By Catalin Cimpanu
The Emotet malware botnet is back up and running once again almost ten months after an international law enforcement operation took down its command and control servers earlier this year in January.
The comeback is surprising because after taking over Emotet’s server infrastructure, law enforcement officials also orchestrated a mass-uninstall of the malware from all infected computers on April 25, effectively wiping out the entire botnet across the internet.
Once described as the “world’s most dangerous malware,” Emotet worked by sending massive waves of email spam to users all over the world in order to infect them with its malware strain.