July 2020‘s Most Wanted Malware: Emotet Strikes Again After Five-Month Absence

mood · Aug 7, 2020

July‘s Most Wanted Malware: Emotet Strikes Again After Five-Month Absence
August 6, 2020
https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/08...motet-strikes-again-after-five-month-absence/

Our latest Global Threat Index for July 2020 has revealed that after a five-month absence, Emotet has surged back to 1st place in the Index, impacting 5% of organizations globally.

Since February 2020, Emotet’s activities – primarily sending waves of malspam campaigns – started to slow down and eventually stopped, until re-emerging in July. This pattern was observed in 2019 when the Emotet botnet ceased activity during the summer months but resumed in September.
In July, Emotet was spreading malspam campaigns, infecting its victims with TrickBot and Qbot, which are used to steal banking credentials and spread inside networks.
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The research team also warns that “MVPower DVR Remote Code Execution” is the most common exploited vulnerability, impacting 44% of organizations globally, followed by “OpenSSL TLS DTLS Heartbeat Information Disclosure” which impacts 42% of organizations worldwide. “Command Injection Over HTTP Payload” is in third place, with a global impact of 38%.
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Top malware families
This month Emotet is the most popular malware with a global impact of 5% of organizations, closely followed by Dridex and Agent Tesla affecting 4% of organizations each. [...]
Top mobile malware families
This month xHelper is the most popular malware, followed by Necro and PreAMo. [...]
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July 2020‘s Most Wanted Malware: Emotet Strikes Again After Five-Month Absence

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