VirusTotal Reveals Most Impersonated Software in Malware Attacks

By: Ravie Lakshmanan — August 3^rd 2022 at 12:36

Threat actors are increasingly mimicking legitimate applications like Skype, Adobe Reader, and VLC Player as a means to abuse trust relationships and increase the likelihood of a successful social engineering attack. Other most impersonated legitimate apps by icon include 7-Zip, TeamViewer, CCleaner, Microsoft Edge, Steam, Zoom, and WhatsApp, an analysis from VirusTotal has revealed. "One of the

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VirusTotal Reveals Most Impersonated Software in Malware Attacks