From tripwire.com
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The actors responsible for the Emotet botnet returned after a four-month period of inactivity with a new malspam campaign.
On 16 September, SpamHaus security researcher Raashid Bhat spotted a spate of new spam emails written in Polish or German that contained malicious attachments or links to malware downloads.