The world’s largest malware will be removed in April according to this well-planned takedown by law enforcement agencies across the world.

In this clean-up operations, the agencies like Europe, FBI, United Kingdom National Crime Agency and others are after investigation find out an infrastructure that was used to control Emotet. It is one of the most complicated disruptions of cyber-criminal operations executed in recent years.

According to the experts, malware botnet is been taken down globally through various law enforcement operations that were conducted in two years.

According to the experts, Trickbot and Formbook campaigns are used to infiltrate the networks of 4% of organizations around the world.

To know about in detail check out this video attached below.

What is Emotet?

Emotet malware emerged as a banking trojan in 2014. Now it gets upgraded into one of the most powerful forms of malware that was later used by cyber hackers.

Emotet is designed to establish a backdoor into the Windows computer system through an automated phishing email that distributes word documents and get infected with malware.

These phishing emails work on social engineering tactics, the email’s subjects and documents are generally reacted to the invoices, shipping notices, and information about the COVID-19. This will increase the chances while penetrating the victims and force them to open the emails and execute the malware into their system.

The hackers behind these attacks are executing the world’s most dangerous malware and one the most complicated botnets of the past decades. While executing the operations that include Ryuk Ransomware and TrickBot banking trojan virus to compromising the victim’s system.

While multiple organizations take several steps to takedown this Emotet, This is one of the biggest attacks that used to impact that we had in recent years and its consequences are very bad.

After a week of action taken by the law enforcement agencies across the world to takedown this Emotet, they gained the control on Emotet infrastructure over hundreds of their server that was located across the world and got disrupted inside.

The systems which are infected by this malware are now under the control of law enforcement agencies. This means that the attackers behind this operation have no longer access to the infected systems. Therefore the attackers are not able to spread this malware towards the new systems and they are no longer able to execute this malware into the victim’s system.

According to the experts, Emotet was developed as the banking trojan malware used to steal the user’s data. But somehow its get evolved over time and now working as the most costly and destructive malware present. The organization is now aware of this attack and used many robust security methods to takedown the effects of Emotet malware. They also trained the employees, so that they can easily identify these types of malware attacks that spread through phishing emails.

As this problem is increasing day by day multiple organizations were planning to uninstall the Emotet malware before 25 April 2021.

What Occurs with Emotet?

Multiple law enforcement agencies in the Netherlands were working while delivering an Emotet update that will remove the malware virus from all the victim’s computer system on 25th April 2021.

This update was made after the law enforcement agencies were decided to seize the servers and arrest the hackers who are working behind this.

According to the investigation, Emotet servers are located across the world. The experts say that two of three Emotet C2C servers are located inside the borders.

Dutch agencies said that they used to get access to the servers off emotet and deploy a trapped on Emotet update to all the infected users.

Two cyber firms were tracked the Emotet operations and contain a bomb-link code that will delete this malware on 25th April 2021 at midnight from all the computers.

What Experts Respond?

Trojan virus-like Trickbot is the second most dangerous form of malware in 2021. Whereas Emotet is constantly updating with new programs and capabilities, has also tended to customize the malware accordingly and infect the user’s system. Trickbot is also upgraded and becomes more sophisticated malware as it is installed into the victim’s system.

Another malware named Formbook has become the third most serious malware virus that was reported. Formbook was generally used as a credential-harvesting malware, after that the account details were sold on several dark web forums at a reasonable cost.

Formbook generally steals usernames, passwords from web browsers. It is also used to store screenshots and capable to monitor logs and keystrokes and many more.

Summering Up

The expert said that the technical disruption was worked as it described, then it will remove the malware from the system. It forces the attackers to start over and rebuild it from the scratch and it also allows the IT companies around the world to relocate the infected system and fix them.

On the other hand, Europol tries to takedown the Emotet attackers from selling the data to other hackers. Ukrainian officials also announced that they arrested two individuals who are running the server of Emotet. The experts request the companies to take the advantage of these time windows and remove it.