Trend Micro: the Emotet botnet, which has returned after a months-long hiatus, is using binary padding and other new tricks to get users to download malware (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Trend Micro: the Emotet botnet, which has returned after a months-long hiatus, is using binary padding and other new tricks to get users to download malware  —  Quoting Herman Melville is only one of Emotet’s latest innovations.  —  Widely regarded as one of the Internet’s top threats …