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Proofpoint Threat Report: Banking Trojans Dominate The Malware Landscape in the First Months of 2018

The first months of 2018 were marked by increasing diversity in the threat landscape even as ransomware stopped appearing in the massive campaigns that characterized much of 2016 and 2017. Without the disproportionately large ransomware campaigns of the last two years, banking Trojans, information stealers, downloaders, remote access Trojans (RATS), and more filled the void in the email space. Social engineering was pervasive, with email fraud attacks continuing to grow and evolve while the vast majority of web-based threats included social engineering techniques as well. Social media support fraud, also known as “angler phishing,” exploded, even as social platforms doubled down on efforts to algorithmically stop link spam.

Posted Date: June 08, 2018
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