November 2020’s Most Wanted Malware: Notorious Phorpiex Botnet Returns As Most Impactful Infection

guest · Dec 9, 2020

November 2020’s Most Wanted Malware: Notorious Phorpiex Botnet Returns As Most Impactful Infection
December 8, 2020
https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/12...x-botnet-returns-as-most-impactful-infection/

Our latest Global Threat Index for November 2020 has revealed that there has been a new surge in infections by the well-known Phorpiex botnet which has made it the month’s most prevalent malware, impacting 4% of organizations globally. Phorpiex was last seen in the Threat Index’s top 10 in June this year.

The Phorpiex botnet was first reported in 2010, and at its peak controlled more than a million infected hosts. Known for distributing other malware families via spam as well as fueling large-scale “sextortion” spam campaigns and cryptomining, Phorpiex has again been distributing the Avaddon ransomware, as Check Point researchers originally reported earlier this year.
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Top malware families
This month, Phorpiex is the most popular malware with a global impact of 4% of organizations, closely followed by Dridex and Hiddad which both impacted 3% of organizations worldwide.
Top exploited vulnerabilities
This month “HTTP Headers Remote Code Execution (CVE-2020-13756)” is the most common exploited vulnerability, impacting 54% of organizations globally, followed by “MVPower DVR Remote Code Execution” impacted 48% of organizations worldwide and “Dasan GPON Router Authentication Bypass (CVE-2018-10561) impacted 44% of organizations globally.
Top Mobile Malwares
This month Hiddad is the most prevalent Mobile malware, followed by xHelper and Lotoor.
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