A whopping 1,200 different malware families attacked UK businesses in November with the notorious Kelihos trojan top of the charts, according to new data from
Check Point.
In second place in the UK and third globally was the Necurs family of malware which the vendor claimed grew 30 times compared with October.
Necurs is backdoor malware used by cyber-criminals to download additional nasties onto infected machines and disable security tools in order to evade detection.
It’s often used with
Bedep, a trojan which grew in use by 250 times from October, according to Check Point.
The rise of both could be linked to a high profile
malvertising campaign involving the notorious Angler exploit kit.
This ongoing campaign has notably infected a blog owned by
UK newspaper The Independent. In many of those attacks the end goal was to infect users with ransomware, such as TeslaCrypt.
