{"id":111352,"date":"2020-08-14T19:25:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T02:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/for-six-months-security-researchers-have-secretly-distributed-an-emotet-vaccine-across-the-world"},"modified":"2020-08-14T19:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T02:25:44","slug":"for-six-months-security-researchers-have-secretly-distributed-an-emotet-vaccine-across-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/for-six-months-security-researchers-have-secretly-distributed-an-emotet-vaccine-across-the-world","title":{"rendered":"For six months, security researchers have secretly distributed an Emotet vaccine across the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HiqPehsO53o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Binary Defense researchers have identified a bug in the Emotet malware and have been using it to prevent the malware from making new victims.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Catalin Cimpanu\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet3.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2018\/08\/21\/a59867e9-8d75-40af-a87c-690638f8afa4\/thumbnail\/40x40\/e9e4d21a35e101b1402c656cf979114c\/catalin-cimpanu.jpg\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binary Defense researchers have identified a bug in the Emotet malware and have been using it to prevent the malware from making new victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}