June 2022’s Most Wanted Malware: New Banking, MaliBot, Poses Danger for Users of Mobile Banking

guest · Jul 19, 2022

Check Point Research reports on new Android banking malware, MaliBot. Emotet, with new variant, is still the most prevalent malware while Snake Keylogger climbs from eighth place to third
July 12, 2022

Our latest Global Threat Index for June 2022 reveals new Android banking, MaliBot, has taken third place in the most prevalent mobile malwares after it emerged following the takedown of FluBot at the end of May.

MaliBot disguises itself as cryptocurrency mining applications under different names and targets users of mobile banking to steal financial information. Similar to FluBot, MaliBot uses phishing SMS messages (smishing) to lure victims into clicking on a malicious link that redirects them to the download of a fake application containing the malware.
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Also this month, the notorious malware, Emotet, is still the most prevalent malware overall.

Snake Keylogger comes in third after an increase in activity since appearing in eighth place last month. Snake’s main functionality is to record users keystrokes and transmit collected data to threat actors. While in May we witnessed Snake Keylogger being delivered via PDF files, recently it has been spread through emails containing Word attachments tagged as requests for quotations.

Researchers also reported about new variant of Emotet in June that has credit card stealing capabilities and targets Chrome browser users.
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Top Malware Families
This month, Emotet is still the most popular malware with a global impact of 14%, followed by Formbook and Snake Keylogger, each impacting 4.4% of organizations worldwide.
Top Attacked Industries Globally
This month Education/Research is still the most attacked industry globally, followed by Government/Military and Healthcare.
Top Exploited Vulnerabilities
This month, “Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution” is the most commonly exploited vulnerability, impacting 43% of organizations worldwide, closely followed by “Web Server Exposed Git Repository Information Disclosure” which has a global impact of 42.3%. “Web Servers Malicious URL Directory Traversal” is in third place with a global impact of 42.1%.
Top Mobile Malwares
This month AlienBot is the most prevalent mobile malware, followed by Anubis and MaliBot.
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