The infamous Emotet botnet was crippled by a joint task force in early 2021, but it was only a matter of months before an improved version began spreading in November.
Emotet now has more than 130,000 unique bots in 179 countries around the world. Emotet's command-and-control (C2) servers have also been growing in number, with more than 200 as of early March.
Emotet is known for dropping trojans like Trickbot and QBot, as well as ransomware like Conti, ProLock, Ryuk, and Egregor. While some of these are not currently active, history shows that Emotet is flexible with its payloads, adapting to the environment with whatever trojans and ransomware variants are most effective at the time.
Acronis Cyber Protect uses powerful behavioral detection capabilities to identify and block threats like Emotet before your data is compromised, and before further infection can occur.
