Emotet was the most active malware threat of 2018 and 2019. On July 17, it reared its head in campaigns using URLs or attachments in email messages to launch scripts that download active components. Those components lie in wait until instructed by a command-and-control server to begin their malicious work. In the past year, that active malware has often been a form of ransomware, though EmOTet networks are typically leased out to install the malware chosen by the criminal customer.Read more here.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/emotet-lives-