Microsoft is reporting an Emotat malware illness turn off a network by leading to computer systems to overheat and crash.
The Emotet payload was delivered and executed on the systems of Fabrikam — a fake name Microsoft gave the victim within their research study — five days following the employee’s user credentials were exfiltrated to the attacker’s command and control (C&C) server.
Before this, the threat actors utilized the stolen credentials to provide phishing emails to additional Fabrikam employees, in addition to with their external contacts, with an increase of and more techniques getting contaminated and downloading additional malware payloads.
The malware more spread through the network without raising any warning flag by stealing admin account credentials authenticating itself on new techniques, afterwards used as stepping stones to compromise other gadgets.
Within 8 days since that very first booby-trapped attachment was opened up, Fabrikam’s whole network was taken to its knees regardless of the IT department’s efforts, with PCs overheating, freezing, and rebooting due to blue screens, and Online connections slowing to a crawl due to Emotet devouring all of the bandwidth.
The infection system was one employee starting a malicious attachment to a phishing email. I cannot find any info on what type of attachment.
