- Cybercriminals or trusted tools like Chatgpt and Office to target small businesses with malware
- PUAS and false applications striking the hardest SMEs
- Deadlines, Trojan horses and downloaders dominate the types of threats across Europe and Africa
Cybercriminals are constantly abusing the confidence that small and medium -sized businesses (SMB) have in some tools to try to pass malicious software on their IT infrastructure, experts have warned.
A Kaspersky report said that Chatgpt, Microsoft Office applications and the Google Workspace suite are among the most usurped products while pirates are trying to do their Worsr.
He found that companies are bombed with false applications – in almost a quarter of incidents (24%) across Europe, cybercriminals have tried to deploy a stolen door. Trojan horses (17%) and downloaders (16%) are also rather popular. In Africa, the baths dominate with more than half of all the recorded incidents (55%), followed by dangers (files or very suspicious behaviors which are not yet classified in a category of specific malware – 14%) and Trojan horses (13%).
Rays, Trojan horses and more
“Small businesses are faced with threats to the business level, often with budgets in terms of startups,” explains Marc Rivero, principal researcher in terms of world research and analysis team (excellent) in Kaspersky.
“The key is to know where to concentrate their limited resources for maximum protection. The best defense against sophisticated malicious software is not the most expensive tool – it is to understand how attackers think and the closing of the doors they are looking for.”
In Europe, Austria was the most attacked country, taking 40% of all detected cases in which potentially undesirable applications (PUAS) and other malicious software was disguised as trust tools.
Italy (25%), Germany (11%), Spain (10%) and Portugal (6%) gathered the first five, the notable notices being France and the United Kingdom. Austria of Africa in this context is Morocco with 41% of all PUA detected targeting SMEs. Tunisia (24%), Algeria (16%) and Senegal (7%) have also been highly affected.
Pirates have always relied on passing trends to try to deploy malware. When Chatgpt emerged for the first time, he had no application – just a browser interface. Cybercriminals have seen this as an opportunity to advertise – via Facebook business accounts stolen – GPT applications for the office and the mobile, through which they distributed infosteralists, waste and various Trojan horses.
