The multifunctional Emotet botnet malware was the most prevalent email-based threat in the first three months of the year, showing it is among the top choices for cybercriminals.
Telemetry data from ESET antivirus company indicates that Emotet has become the go-to botnet service to spread malware across the world, as it was the primary payload detected on protected computers.
Emotet started off as a banking malware and developed into a tool that can send out spam messages and distribute other threats on the systems it compromises.
Statistics gathered by ESET from the computers it protects in the first quarter of the year shows that 61% of malicious payloads delivered via email were botnets, all detected as Emotet.
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