By Eduard Kovacs on December 12, 2014 Researchers at Trend Micro have observed a spike in the number of Ursnif infections. The most affected countries are the United States and the United Kingdom.
Ursnif is a piece of malware that's utilized by cybercriminals to steal passwords and other sensitive information from infected devices. However, the variant that caused the spike, detected as PE_URSNIF.A-O, is also capable of infecting files, the security firm said.
The United States and the United Kingdom account for 39.35%, respectively 35.51%, of infections. The malware has also been spotted on computers in Canada (19%) and Turkey (1.92%). Education, financial, and manufacturing are among the sectors impacted by the threat, which is distributed with the aid of spam messages and Trojan downloaders.
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Ursnif Malware Steals Data, Infects Files in US, UK
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