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Emotet sextortion campaigns are netting much more money than similar Necurs campaigns, researchers find

14 February 2020 • 2 min read

Emotet operators are targeting victims through their work email rather than webmail accounts

Emotet spam campaigns focused on so-called 'sextortion' have netted fraudsters considerably more than comparable Necurs campaigns, according to security researchers at IBM X-Force. They claim t...

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