Researchers exploited a bug in Emotet malware to create a killswitch, containing its spread for six months

Move is aimed at circumventing macro-based security restrictions. Windows admins are advised to configure a group policy to mitigate the risk

Although it appears as ransomware, the threat actually destroys data on a target system.

Kaspersky said last month that it had found more than 400 infected websites spreading the notorious banking Trojan