December 2021’s most wanted malware: Trickbot, emotet and the Log4j plague

December 2021’s most wanted malware: Trickbot, emotet and the Log4j plague

DUBAI, UAE: Check Point Research, the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, has published its latest Global Threat Index for December 2021. In a month that saw the Apache Log4j vulnerability sweep the internet, researchers reported that Trickbot is still the most prevalent malware in the UAE, affecting 8% of organizations in December 2021 as compared to 7% in November 2021. The recently resurgent Emotet has swiftly risen from eighth position to second as it targets nearly 3% of the organisations in the UAE with close to 2% in November 2021. CPR also reveals that the most attacked industry continues to be Education/Research. This month “Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution” is the most exploited vulnerability, affecting 48.3% of organizations globally. The vulnerability was first reported on December 9 th in the Apache logging package Log4j – the most popular Java logging library used in many Internet services and apps with over 400,000 downloads from its GitHub project. The vulnerability caused a new plague, impacting almost half of all companies worldwide in a very short space of time. Attackers are able to exploit vulnerable apps to execute cryptojackers