Millions of email addresses collected by Emotet botnet for malware distribution campaigns have been shared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as part of the agency’s effort to clean infected computers.
Individuals and domain owners can now learn if Emotet impacted their accounts by searching the database with email addresses stolen by the malware.
Over 4 million emails collected
Earlier this year, law enforcement took control of Emotet botnet’s infrastructure that involved several hundreds of servers all over the world.
Using the communication line to infected computers, law enforcement on April 25 was able to send out an update that uninstalled Emotet malware on all affected systems.
Apart from computer systems, Emotet also compromised a large number of email addresses and used them for its operations. The FBI now wants to give the owners of these email addresses a quick way to check if they’ve been affected by Emotet.
For this purpose, the agency and the Dutch National High Technical Crimes Unit (NHTCU) shared 4,324,770 email addresses that had been stolen by Emotet with the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) data breach notification service.
Troy Hunt, the creator of the HIBP service says that 39% of these email addresses had already been indexed as part of other data breach incidents.
The email addresses belong to users from multiple countries. They came from logins stored on Emotet’s infrastructure for sending out malicious em ..
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