The HP Wolf Security threat research team has identified a 27-fold increase in detections resulting from Emotet malicious spam campaigns in Q1 2022, compared to Q4 2021 — when Emotet first made its reappearance.
Once described by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as one of the most destructive and costly malware to remediate, Emotet has bolted up 36 places to become the most common malware family detected this quarter (representing 9% of all malware captured).