As 2018 rounded to a close, Malwarebytes predicted that Emotet and Trickbot were the future of malware, and the third annual State of Malware Report released today confirms that the Trojan families spread wildly, most often targeting the education, government, manufacturing and healthcare sectors.
The old adage, “When one goes up, the other comes down,” rang true with malware attacks in 2018. By the second quarter of the year, there was a notable decline in crypto-mining attacks, which saw only a 7% year-over-year increase; however, there was significant rise in information-stealing malware. The former banking Trojans Emotet and TrickBot plagued the education industry, while manufacturing suffered attacks from WannaCrypt and Emotet.
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