Distinct scam operations will be going to target around 100,000 users per day. This entire campaign will be started in between Christmas and New Year named Emotet. Now, you may think what is Emotet? How did this malware start infecting victims’ systems? Read the upcoming section to know about these questions and also learn about the working of Emotet.

What is Emotet?

Emotet is malware activated from 2014 and is regularly updated by its authors while maintaining the effectiveness of the malware. This attack was started as a banking trojan but it evolved according to time and its effect is getting more than it started.

Emotet is creating a complete backdoor on compromised systems and then this backdoor has been sold to the cybercriminals to infect the victim systems including ransomware attacks. It has worm capabilities that allow it to move from one machine to another situated onto the same network as the primary victim.

This malware can also spread through phishing emails, having tremendous maintenance skulls, and also it is undetectable, meanwhile, victims have no idea that their system is compromised and they are got hacked.

Specialists Representations

Emotet malware is designed as banking malware which is capable to steal the user’s private information. Since it is getting evolved according to time now it is the most costly and effective malware present.

According to the director of Check Point, the impact of emotet on the organization is very effective. They also conduct employee training programs to identify this malware and they have designed the security systems to reduce the effectiveness of this malware.

Other Effective Virus

According to experts, the Banking trojan trick bot is the second most dangerous malware detected. Just like Emotet, trickbot is also becoming effective day by day and it is often installed on the systems and it opens the gates for a ransomware attack.

Formbook is the third effective malware detected after Emotent and Trickbot. Formbook is sold on Dark Web at a very low cost by it provides everything that cybercriminals needed to planned a stealing campaign. Formbook steals the user credentials like username, passwords from the browsers and also collects the screenshots, keystrokes, and many other things.

According to the experts this two malware, Trickbot, and Formbook were responsible for infecting more than 4% of organizations around the world.

On the other hand, other malware like Dridex trojan, XMRig, Hiddda Android malware, Cryptocurrency mining malware were also detected in December.

Prevention Measures

As the security experts say that, one of the best ways to protect your organization from this malware is to ensure that you are using the update or latest security patches. These updates will prevent the upcoming cyber attacks and also detect the unknown vulnerabilities from which cyber hackers may exploit to install the malware in the victim’s system.