More than six years have passed since the banking Trojan Emotet was first detected. The malware is still in fine fettle, and remains one of the most potent cybersecurity threats out there. The Trojan is distributed through spam, which it sends itself, and can spread over local networks and download other malware. In the fall of 2014, we discovered a modification of the malware that began to employ techniques to steal funds from victims bank accounts automatically, using the so-called Automatic Transfer System (ATS) We believe that this was a trial attempt at a new distribution mechanism.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/the-chronicles-of-emotet/99660/