CASE STUDY: MUNICIPALITY CASE STUDY Large Municipality Recovers from Emotet Malware and Prevents Repeat Data Breach with BlueVoyant In 2017, a mid-sized municipality came under attack by a sophisticated threat actor. An email-based phishing campaign gave the cyber attacker access to over 1,400 end points. A group of end users simply clicked a “legitimate looking link” which deposited a trojan within the system that was able to mutate, or morph, inside the system, transmitting from endpoint to endpoint undetected by existing security controls. Fast identification, remediation, and expert handling were delivered by the BlueVoyant team who was able to keep the organization running while preventing future attacks with Managed Security Services and the experts in the BlueVoyant SOC.

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