Malware

The Hacker News reports that legitimate applications, including Adobe Reader, Skype, and VLC Player, have been increasingly impersonated by threat actors in social engineering attacks.

BleepingComputer reports that Linux SSH servers have been besieged by brute-force attacks from the novel Mirai trojan-based RapperBot botnet since mid-June.

Many of the top malware used in 2021 has been in circulation for at least five years, while two others — Qakbot and Ursnif — have been used in hacking campaigns for more than a decade, according to U.S. and Australian cyber agencies.

Despite our best efforts to the contrary, email attacks are growing more numerous and more costly. Here are the top three email threats you need to worry about.

The so-called "DawDropper" that has been focused on financial institutions of late utilizes malicious "droppers" in order to share and spread its malware payload, according to research from Trend Micro’s mobile team.

Threat actors have been distributing the Mars Stealer info-stealing malware through a phony website spoofing the widely-used decentralized wallet and cryptocurrency exchange portal Atomic Wallet, reports BleepingComputer.