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Botnet that knows your name and quotes your email is back with new tricks

Getty Images reader comments 9 with Share this story Widely regarded as one of the Internet’s top threats, the Emotet botnet has returned after a months-long hiatus—and it has some new tricks. Last week, Emotet appeared for the first time this year after a four-month hiatus. It returned with its trademark activity—a wave of malicious… Read More: Botnet that knows your name and quotes your email is… »

I sent my yoga studio a web form, and all I got was this lousy malware attack

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On the last day of May, one of my inboxes began receiving emails, purportedly from one of the owners of the yoga studio I visit. It concerned a message I sent in January through the studio’s website that had been resolved the following day in an email sent by the co-owner.… Read More: I sent my yoga studio a web form, and all… »