February 2020’s Most Wanted Malware: Increase in Exploits Spreading the Mirai Botnet to IoT Devices

guest · Mar 11, 2020

February 2020’s Most Wanted Malware: Increase in Exploits Spreading the Mirai Botnet to IoT Devices
Check Point Research also reports that Emotet has been spreading via new SMS phishing Campaign
March 11, 2020
https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/03...ts-spreading-the-mirai-botnet-to-iot-devices/

Our latest Global Threat Index for February 2020 shows a large increase in exploitation of a vulnerability to spread the Mirai botnet, which is notorious for targeting Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, such as web cameras, modems and routers, and for conducting massive DDoS attacks.

The “PHP php-cgi Query String Parameter Code Execution” vulnerability, ranked 6th in the top exploited vulnerabilities and impacted 20% of organizations worldwide, compared to just 2% in January 2020.
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The February report also identified that Emotet, the second most popular malware this month and the most widespread botnet operating currently, has been spreading using two new vectors during February.

Emotet impacted 7% of organizations globally in February, down from 13% in January, when it was being spread via spam campaigns including Coronavirus-themed campaigns. This highlights how quickly cyber-criminals change the themes of their attacks to try and maximise infection rates, and how organizations need to ensure they are educated about how to identify different types of malicious spam.
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