You may have recently come across indicators of compromise (IoC), such as malicious IP addresses, which you can use to validate whether you have been affected or not. For example, a national cyber security agency can approach you to validate specific IoCs in your environment and report back to them. Flowmon can help you with this. You can simply do a retrospective analysis and proactive real-time monitoring to detect the occurrence of such IoCs.
According to IBM X-Force, the Emotet malware has recently been spreading in Germany and Japan, targeting companies in the area more and more aggressively.
In the coming years we can expect an even larger and more sophisticated wave of theft, fraud, extortion and deactivation of the various services run by businesses and public organisations. Here are a few reasons cybercrime will flourish in the coming years.