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Research Reveals LockBit Ransomware Surges While Android Droppers Emerge as Top Business Threat
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Malwarebytes State of Malware report warns against ransomware gang behind one-third of all attacks and the trojan horse of apps lurking in IT environments
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Malwarebytes(TM), a global leader in real-time cyber protection, announced the release of its annual cybersecurity trend and threat intelligence report: 2023 State of Malware. The report shares key cybersecurity developments of 2022 and explains why organizations that protect against the five most dangerous cyberthreat archetypes today will be better secured this year.
"In today's rapid fire threat landscape, under-resourced organizations often struggle with where to focus their time, attention, and resources," said Mark Stockley, Cybersecurity Evangelist, Malwarebytes. "This report acts as a guide to those organizations by focusing their limited time on a small number of critical threats across Windows, Mac, and Android. If organizations can understand what it takes to prevent these threats, they are well placed to stop a huge number of other attacks as well."
Key findings from the report include:
-- LockBit: The Most Dominant Ransomware - LockBit rose to dominance in
2022 and accounted for about one-third of all known ransomware
as-a-service (RaaS) attacks, more than three times as many known attacks
as the next most active ransomware, ALPHV.
-- SocGholish: Simple but Effective - Using websites to spread, rather than
attachments, software vulnerabilities, or brute force attacks, the
threat comes disguised as a critical browser update. Malwarebytes found
that SocGholish performs eligibility checks to ensure it is only
triggered by legitimate targets and using lures and malware meant to
attract individual targets.
-- Android Droppers: Businesses' Biggest Threat - Droppers, trojan horses
that disguise themselves as innocent apps, can be used to deliver
pernicious threats like HiddenAds that bombard users with aggressive
ads, banking trojans like ShareBot, and spy malware to harvest
passwords, geo location, record audio, and even take pictures. In 2022,
droppers accounted for 14% of detections on Android.
-- Genio: The Mac Menace - Malwarebytes tracks tens of millions of
detection events for Mac adware and potentially unwanted programs
(PUPs), but the worst is OSX.Genio. In 2022, it was the second most
common detection on Macs, appearing on 10 percent of all machines that
triggered a detection event.
Learn more about the report and how businesses can protect themselves:
-- LinkedIn Live on February 23 at 11am PT - Join Cybersecurity Evangelist,
Mark Stockley, as he breaks down the five most dangerous threats facing
businesses this year - including LockBit and SocGholish. Stockley will
dissect how the threats are delivered, where they spread, what they
destroy, and the best practices to protect against them.
-- ThreatDown Webinar on March 15 - Jérôme Segura, Senior Director of
Threat Intelligence, and Cybersecurity Evangelist, Mark Stockley,
provide a breakdown of the top five cyberthreat archetypes to stop this
year and share guidance on how to catch the emerging, hard-to-detect
attacks that don't rely on malware.
To read more about the latest threats and cyber protection strategies, visit our newsroom, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok and Twitter.
About Malwarebytes
Malwarebytes believes that when people and organizations are free from threats, they are free to thrive. Founded in 2008, Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski had one mission: to rid the world of malware. Today, Malwarebytes' award-winning endpoint protection, privacy and threat prevention solutions and its world-class team of threat researchers protect millions of individuals and thousands of businesses across the globe. The effectiveness and ease-of-use of Malwarebytes solutions are consistently recognized by independent third parties including MITRE Engenuity, MRG Effitas, AVLAB, AV-TEST (consumer and business), Gartner Peer Insights, G2 Crowd and CNET. The company is headquartered in California with offices in Europe and Asia. For more information and career opportunities, visit https://www.malwarebytes.com.
Malwarebytes Media Contact:
Ashley Stewart, Director, Public & Analyst Relations
press@malwarebytes.com
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SOURCE Malwarebytes
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