Emotet is back with a bang, driving a 145% spike in threat activity throughout the fourth quarter of 2019, researchers report in a new analysis of 202 billion emails from the past quarter. Of the messages analyzed, 92 billion were rejected, Mimecast says. The malware’s subscription-based malware-as-a-service model makes it accessible to a wider audience, researchers say. Spam is a significant and high-volume means to distribute malware; it was especially popular in attacks against the legal, software/software and banking industries.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/emotet-resurfaces-to-drive-145-of-threats-in-q4-2019