{"id":94494,"date":"2019-08-06T09:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-evolution-of-emotet-how-to-protect-your-network"},"modified":"2019-08-06T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:42:37","slug":"the-evolution-of-emotet-how-to-protect-your-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-evolution-of-emotet-how-to-protect-your-network","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of Emotet: How to protect your network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-evolution-of-emotet-how-to-protect-your-network.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.av-test.org\/en\/statistics\/malware\/\">over 350,000 new malware samples<\/a> emerging every day, it\u2019s difficult for any one strain of malware to make a name for itself. Any single malware sample whose name you know \u2014 be it Mirai, WannaCry, or NotPetya \u2014 speaks to a trail of devastation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, people are also hearing another name: Emotet.<\/p>\n<p>But Emotet has been around in one form or another since 2014, and its first major resurgence was in 2017. In the beginning, Emotet was just one trojan among many \u2014 a particularly run-of-the-mill banking trojan that did some damage before being researched, understood, and dismissed in a flurry of signature updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 350,000 new malware samples emerging every day, it\u2019s difficult for any one strain of malware to make a name for itself. Any single malware sample whose name you know \u2014 be it Mirai, WannaCry, or NotPetya \u2014 speaks to a trail of devastation. In 2019, people are also hearing another name: Emotet. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,385,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-evolution","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94494","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=94494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}