Quote:An increase in spam e-mails spreading Word documents containing scripts downloading the self-propagating Emotet banking Trojan has been observed during the past week according to an analysis by Malwarebytes Labs' Director, Adam Kujawa.

The Emotet malware is a well known malicious program among security researchers, a tool used by attackers to infect computers via spam e-mails to steal financial info such as bank logins or cryptocurrency wallets.

Furthermore, Emotet can exfiltrate proprietary info and data, login credentials, and Personally Identifiable Information (PII), the leading cause behind identity theft incidents.
Emotet is also known to act as a transport conduit for other banking Trojans or, in the case of the current campaign, for Trickbot, an information-stealing and highly-customizable modular botnet agent malware using compromised routers and IP cameras as command-and-control (C&C) servers.