The Threatpost Podcast: Emotet's Fast-Evolving Tactics

Published: Jan. 14, 2019, noon

The Emotet banking trojan has been popping up in the news for years: From widespread malspam infections of banking German targets in 2014, all the way up to the costly infection of a New Hampshire town’s computer network in July.

And while the tricky Emotet malware first emerged targeting banking credentials, over the past year researchers have called out the trojan for changing its tactics – and its targets. Sig Murphy, consulting director for Western North America at Cylance, says that this evolution will continue in 2019.