Emotet: The Tricky Trojan that ‘Git Clones’
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The Emotet Trojan downloader originally debuted in 2014 as a banking Trojan that took an unusual approach to stealing banking credentials; Instead of hooking per-browser functions in the victim’s web browser process, Emotet directly hooked network API functions. Four years have passed since 2014 and Emotet continues to be a point of interest; not many… Click to Read More
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