May’s Most Wanted Malware: Ursnif Banking Trojan Ranks On Top 10 Malware List for First Time

guest · Jun 15, 2020

Banking trojans roar back to prominence in May
June 15, 2020
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252484667/Banking-trojans-roar-back-to-prominence-in-May

Attacks exploiting banking trojans such as Agent Tesla, Dridex and Ursnif increased sharply during May 2020, according to Check Point’s threat intelligence arm, Check Point Research, which recently published its monthly Global threat index report, with Ursnif in particular more than doubling its impact on organisations worldwide, leaping up to fifth place in the malware ‘charts’.

Ursnif, which targets Windows PCs and steals financial data and email credentials, is being delivered via Microsoft Word or Excel attachments through spam campaigns, and its increased activity in May coincided with reports about the demise of one of its more popular variants, Dreambot, which disappeared in March after its back-end server dropped off the web.
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Dridex, the suspected Russian creators of which were indicted by the US government in 2019, entered the malware top 10 for the first time in March and rose swiftly to the top spot in both April and May, said Check Point.
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Check Point: May’s Most Wanted Malware: Ursnif Banking Trojan Ranks On Top 10 Malware List for First Time, Over Doubling Its Impact On Organizations

Our latest Global Threat Index for May 2020 has found several malicious spam campaigns distributing the Ursnif banking trojan, which caused it to jump up 19 places to 5th in the Top Malware list, doubling its impact on organizations worldwide

Check Point researcher’s warn that with the Dridex, Agent Tesla and Ursnif banking trojans all ranking in the malware top 5 in May, it is clear cyber criminals are focusing on using malware that enables them to monetize their victim’s data and credentials. While COVID-19-related attacks have fallen, we have seen
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a 16% increase in overall cyber-attacks in May compared to March and April, so organizations must remain vigilant by using certain tools and techniques, especially with the mass shift to remote working, which attackers are taking advantage of.

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*The arrows relate to the change in rank compared to the previous month. [...]
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