Researchers identify a new Emotet campaign that is distributing phishing emails - and malware - to targets across the globe.
January 17, 2020 By Danny Palmer
One of the world's most prolific botnets has returned and is once again attempting to deliver malware to victims via phishing attacks.
Emotet started life as a banking trojan before evolving into a botnet, which its criminal operators leased out to other hackers as a means of delivering their own malware to previously compromised machines.
Such was the power of the botnet that at one point last year it accounted for almost two-thirds of of malicious payloads delivered in phishing attacks.