Emotet is back and installing TrickBot trojan, researcher warns

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The latest Emotet spam campaign is targeting people in the UK and the US

After months of inactivity, the Emotet malware has sprung back to life and has started installing the TrickBot Trojan on infected Windows computers. That's according to Binary Defense researcher...

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