[Oni]

Interesting to see them operating on the basis of transparency. Hopefully those affected are notified and able to take proper measures. Recently law enforcement forced an uninstall for those affected by Emotet.

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 emails or had been harvested from the users’ web browsers.

Read More: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...een-pwned/

[fritz]

Interesting to see them operating on the basis of transparency. Hopefully those affected are notified and able to take proper measures. Recently law enforcement forced an uninstall for those affected by Emotet.

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 emails or had been harvested from the users’ web browsers.

Read More: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...een-pwned/

Interesting !
Discovering you've been infected by seeing your email is in the breach would be quite surprising haha

[Oni]

Interesting to see them operating on the basis of transparency. Hopefully those affected are notified and able to take proper measures. Recently law enforcement forced an uninstall for those affected by Emotet.

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 emails or had been harvested from the users’ web browsers.

Read More: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...een-pwned/

Interesting !
Discovering you've been infected by seeing your email is in the breach would be quite surprising haha

More interesting, would be learning from Have I Been Pwned, rather than the other peculiarities associated with being on someone's botnet.

[Spooky]

Wow I like this a lot, glad to see FBI doing some good every once in a while. Hopefully we continue to see them working towards our benefit even more. Time to check Have I been Pwned lol

[fegzherh]

we continue to see them working towards our benefit even more. Time to check Have 192.168.100.1 192.168.1.1