Frankfurt shuts down IT network following Emotet infection

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Frankfurt shuts down IT network following Emotet infection
Frankfurt city officials take down IT network to prevent Emotet to be used as a staging point to launch a ransomware attack
December 19, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/frankfurt-shuts-down-it-network-following-emotet-infection/

Frankfurt, one of the largest financial hubs in the world and the home of the European Central Bank, has shut down its IT network this week following an infection with the Emotet malware.

Frankfurt is the fourth German entity that shut down its IT network in the past two weeks because of Emotet.
The other three are (1) the Justus Liebig University (JLU) in Gießen, a town north of Frankfurt; (2) Bad Homburg, another city north of Frankfurt; and (3) the Catholic University in Freiburg, a city in southwest Germany, near the French border.

All of the above organizations have shut down their network to remove Emotet as quickly as possible and prevent any future ransomware attacks.
According to German newspaper Hessenschau, [...]
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• The university is currently dealing with the aftermath, which includes asking 38,000 students and staff to stand in huge lines to get a new password for their university email accounts.
• The next to fall victim to Emotet was the Catholic University in Freiburg, which reported the infection on Tuesday this week, on December 17.
• The cities of Frankfurt and Bad Homburg reported Emotet infections the next day, on December 18. Both cities acted immediately to shut down their IT networks.

Frankfurt was the most affected. Everything IT-related provided by the city is currently down, from the city's website to public transportation ticketing services.
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EMOTET'S FOCUS ON GERMANY
The infections across Germany aren't a surprise. In recent weeks, the Emotet gang has started targeting German users more often.
At this point, it is very clear that the Emotet gang is putting quite the effort into infecting German targets, something it hadn't done before on this scale.
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