October 2021’s Most Wanted Malware: Trickbot Takes Top Spot for Fifth Time

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October 2021’s Most Wanted Malware: Trickbot Takes Top Spot for Fifth Time
November 11, 2021
https://blog.checkpoint.com/2021/11...lware-trickbot-takes-top-spot-for-fifth-time/

Our latest Global Threat Index for October 2021 reveals that the modular botnet and banking trojan, Trickbot, remains at the top of the most prevalent malware list, affecting 4% of organizations worldwide, while “Apache HTTP Server Directory Traversal” has entered the top ten list of exploited vulnerabilities. We also revealed this month that the most attacked industry globally is Education/Research.

Trickbot can steal financial details, account credentials, and personally identifiable information, as well as spread laterally within a network and drop ransomware. Since the Emotet takedown in January, Trickbot has featured at the top of the most prevalent malware list five times. It is constantly being updated with new capabilities, features and distribution vectors which enables it to be a flexible and customizable malware that can be distributed as part of multi-purpose campaigns.
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CPR also revealed this month that Education/Research is the most attacked industry globally, followed by Communications and Government/Military. “Web Servers Malicious URL Directory Traversal” is the most commonly exploited vulnerability, impacting 60% of organizations globally, followed by “Web Server Exposed Git Repository Information Disclosure” which affects 55% of organizations worldwide. “HTTP Headers Remote Code Execution” remains in third place in the top exploited vulnerabilities list, with a global impact of 54%.
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Top malware families
This Month, Trickbot is the most popular malware impacting 4% of organizations worldwide, followed by XMRig with 3% and Remcos with 2%.
Top Attacked Industries Globally:
This month Education/Research is the most attacked industry globally, followed by Communications and Government/Military.
Top exploited vulnerabilities
This month “Web Servers Malicious URL Directory Traversal” is the most commonly exploited vulnerability, impacting 60% of organizations globally, followed by “Web Server Exposed Git Repository Information Disclosure” which affects 55% of organizations worldwide. “HTTP Headers Remote Code Execution” remains in third place in the top exploited vulnerabilities list, with a global impact of 54%.
Top Mobile Malwares
This month xHelper remains in first place in the most prevalent Mobile malwares, followed by AlienBot and XLoader.
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