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Trickbot continues to be the Top Malware Threat

Trickbot which is a botnet and banking Trojan that can steal financial details, account credentials, and personally identifiable information, as well as spread within a network and drop ransomware, particularly Ryuk.

Trickbot continues to reign as UAE’s top malware threat

During February, Trickbot was being distributed via a malicious spam campaign designed to trick users in the legal and insurance sectors into downloading a .zip archive with a malicious JavaScript file to their PCs.

TrickBot - UAE - top malware threat - techxmedia
TrickBot appears as UAE’s top malware threat

Trickbot ranks as the most popular malware with a UAE-wide impact of 7%, closely followed by Emotet and Hiddad impacting of 6% of organizations each.

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ESET participates in global operation to disrupt Trickbot botnet

ESET Research has been tracking its activities since its initial detection in late 2016. In 2020 alone, ESET’s botnet tracker platform analyzed more than 125,000 malicious samples and downloaded and decrypted.