- Cyberfrinals counterfeit trusted tools such as ChatGPT and Office to aim small businesses with malware
- PUAS AND FALSE APPLICATIONS THAT HAKE THE MOST DIFFICULT SMEs
- Back doors, Trojans and downloaders dominate the types of threats in Europe and Africa
Cybercounts constantly abuse confidence that small and medium enterprises (SMB) have in certain tools to try to smuggle malware in their IT infrastructure, experts warned.
A Kaspersky report has claimed Chatgpt, Microsoft Office Apps and Google Workspace Suite are among the most counterfeit products as computer pirates try to make their workr.
He found that companies are being bombed with false applications: in almost a quarter of the incidents (24%) throughout Europe, cybercriminals tried to deploy a rear door. The Trojans (17%) and the downloaders (16%) are also quite popular. In Africa, the rear doors dominate with more than half of all registered incidents (55%), followed by dangerous objectives (highly suspicious behaviors that are not yet classified in a category of specific malware – 14%) and Trojans (13%).
Rear doors, Trojans and more
“Small businesses face threats at the business level, often with budgets at the start level,” says Marc Rivero, main security researcher of the global research and analysis team (Great) in Kaspersky.
“The key is to know where to focus its limited resources for maximum protection. The best defense against sophisticated malware is not the most expensive tool: it is understanding how attackers think and the closure of the doors they are looking for.”
In Europe, Austria was the most attacked country, occupying 40% of all cases detected in which potentially unwanted applications (PUA) and other malware were disguised as trust tools.
Italy (25%), Germany (11%), Spain (10%) and Portugal (6%) gathered the first five, with notable mentions of France and the United Kingdom. The Austria of Africa in this context is Morocco with 41% of all the Pua detected addressed to SMEs. It is said that Tunisia (24%), Algeria (16%) and Senegal (7%) were also strongly affected.
Computer pirates have always inclined to the trends that pass to try to implement malware. When Chatgpt emerged for the first time, he did not have an application, only an interface in the browser. The cybercounts saw this as an opportunity to announce, through commercial accounts of stolen Facebook, GPT applications for desktop and mobile, through which they distributed infants of infants, rear doors and several Trojans.
