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Such attacks would still rely on successfully tricking the prime minister, however, or using cyber weapons so expensive that they could only plausibly come from a state actor. But other vulnerabilities exist at the network level.
One attack, called âSim-jackingâ, can be used to completely take control of a phone number, Natalie Page, a threat intelligence analyst at Talion, said.
âThe technique requires an attacker to deceive a phone operator into releasing a code to the adversary, allowing them to switch a targeted mobile phone number, such as Boris Johnsonâs, to another Sim, enabling the attacker to take control of the phone number.â
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An update pushed out earlier this year by law enforcement agencies, including Europol, on Sunday began erasing Emotet malware from infected devices worldwide, according to a blog posting from Malwarebytes.
The “update” file - a customized DLL file called EmotetLoader.dllsent - was activated on infected devices to erase the malware, Malwarebytes reports.
Europol has not issued an announcement on the action and did not immediately reply to Information Security Media Group s request for comment.
Today at 1:00 PM, our #Emotet-infected machine that had received the special law enforcement file triggered its uninstallation routine.
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