FBI Shares Email Addresses to Speed Emotet Cleanup
May 20, 2021
May 3, 2021
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The FBI has shared 4.3 million email addresses stolen by the Emotet malware with the Have I Been Pwned breach notification site in another effort to remediate the effects of the devastating botnet.
The email addresses come from mail servers compromised by Emotet as well as end-user computers on which the malware had scraped credentials out of victims browsers, says Troy Hunt, an Australian computer security expert who runs HIBP.
It’s the first time the FBI has asked Hunt s service to assist in notifying victims, says Hunt, who wrote a blog post about the move.