Security News > 2019 > May > When it comes to email-based threats, Emotet dominates

Emotet displaced credential stealers, stand-alone downloaders and RATs and became the most prominent threat delivered via email, Proofpoint has shared. According to the firm’s statistics, in Q1 2019 a whooping 61 percent of all malicious payloads distributed via email were Emotet. The nature of the malicious payloads Emotet started its life as a banking Trojan, but has morphed over time and became a malware multi-tool, capable of downloading additional malware, stealing passwords, performing brute-force attacks … More → The post When it comes to email-based threats, Emotet dominates appeared first on Help Net Security.

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