Avira Cyber Threat Report

anon · Aug 14, 2022

Avira Cyber Threat Report
August 10, 2022
https://www.avira.com/en/blog/avira-cyber-threat-report

Looking ahead

Based on the Avira Telemetry for top prevalent Windows PE threats, we expect that continuing into the second half of 2022 and beyond there could be a further increase in activity seen from the major cyberthreat families Dridex, AgentTesla, Formbook and Redline. Despite the cyberthreats from Remcos and Trickbot showing marginal decrease in activity during the start of the Q2, they remain relevant in today’s cyberthreat landscape with possibly a minor growth in numbers in the future.

As highlighted throughout the NonPE section, the switch that most of the prevalent malware families had in the last 6 month towards script files live VBS and LNK is something that we predict will continue and even increase. The Office malware was already over-used and the new security- related improvements that Microsoft implemented made Office files less attractive to threat actors compared to other methods. Even with this reduced effectiveness, it remains a viable option, so while numbers are expected to drop for Office based threats, they will not be eradicated anytime soon.

Phishing HTML is the most basic way of distributing files with malicious intents, its technically straight forward techniques making it easy to be created and spread in big numbers. The social engineering techniques still have high success rates, so we predict that email and web-based phishing will continue to be one of the most dominant threats to user safety.

Mobile cyberthreats using sophisticated Android malware decreased over the last 6 months, while attacks using simpler Android malware, such as SMS Trojans, spyware, stalkerware, increased. Traditional Trojans such as lockers and bankers are falling out of favour, a trend we expect will continue as mobile devices remain a platform with reduced lucratively for malware authors. Phishing, on the other hand, is easily adapted to mobile devices, and we expect an increase in mobile-tailored phishing campaigns in the coming months and years.

For macOS, Adware will continue to be the dominant problem, with malware families such as Bundlore expected to increase in activity in the second half of 2022 and beyond.
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