There's a new top dog when it comes to dangerous malware

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Qbot has become the most prevalent banking trojan around, taking the top spot from Emotet, new figures have claimed. According to fresh figures from the Check Point Global Threat Index for December 2022, Qbot (also known as Qakbot) impacted 7% of organizations worldwide, retaking the number one spot from Emotet (4%). Based on proprietary data, Check Point’s report says that besides Qbot and Emotet, XMRig rounded off the top three most prevalent malicious programs around, for the last month of the year.XMRig, impacting 3% of businesses worldwide is a cryptominer, a program that “mines” the XMR cryptocurrency for the attackers. It’s a popular application, which the threat actors aim mostly to install on servers and other high-end machines.

When it comes to mobile devices, a completely different set of malware prevailed. Anubis was the most prevalent variant, followed by Hiddad and AlienBot. But to install these malware, hackers need to have some way to access the target endpoints, which is mostly done through known vulnerabilities. “Web Server Exposed Git Repository Information Disclosure” was the most commonly exploited vulnerability, Check Point said, impacting almost half (46%) of organizations globally. “Web Server Malicious URL Directory Traversal” was second-placed with 44% of businesses around the world being impacted. The top three were rounded off with “Command INjection Over HTTP” - 43%. Education and Research remained the most attacked industry, before Government and Military, and Healthcare.

There's a new top dog when it comes to dangerous malware

Emotet is no longer the number-one malware

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