A vigilante hacker has been sabotaging the Emotet malware botnet, replacing a quarter of daily payloads with animated GIFs, stopping victims from being infected (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

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Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
A vigilante hacker has been sabotaging the Emotet malware botnet, replacing a quarter of daily payloads with animated GIFs, stopping victims from being infected  —  Emotet botnet activity goes down as Emotet admins are wrestling with a vigilante for control over parts of their infrastructure.

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