Chaque événement et chaque personnalité est une opportunité pour les cybercriminels de répandre leurs malwares. Cette année la palme revient à Emotet qui a surfé sur la vague verte de Greta
The Swedish climate-change activist is the lure in a massive global malware campaign. There’s no doubt that teenage climate-change activist and Time Person of the Year Greta Thunberg inspires people around the world – and it turns out, this includes cybercriminals.
Emotet has started a new spam campaign that is banking off the popularity of environmental activist Greta Thunberg and her dedication to the climate movement. Unsuspecting users who think they are getting info about an upcoming demonstration, will instead find that they have become infected with Emotet and other malware.
If you receive a « support Greta Thunberg » email this holiday season, you might want to proceed with considerable caution. Cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint have warned that there is an active campaign that is using interest in the environmental campaigner to spread a malicious strain of malware that threatens to put recipients at risk.
